Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Lawhive; City of London; On-site; GBP 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking legal tech company in London is seeking a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer. You will play a key role in evolving the platform while collaborating with designers and product managers. Ideal candidates should have experience with TypeScript and Python, and a strong track record in fast-paced environments. This full-time role offers competitive pay between £135K and £170K, alongside excellent benefits including equity and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Meaningful early-stage equity

33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus birthday off

Pension contribution via Nest

20% off legal fees

Top-spec Macbook

Regular team building activities and socials

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering exceptional work.
• Experience in fast-paced environments.
• Senior contributor experience in high-output teams.
• Ability to build products from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Build entire products and features across the stack.
• Resolve technical issues and make critical decisions.
• Deliver user-focused experiences and ensure product quality.
• Assist with hiring and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Opinionated approach

Fast-paced adaptability

Attention to detail

Deep understanding of tech stack

Experience in high-output engineering teams

Knowledge of design and security practices

Tools

TypeScript

Python

AWS

Postgres

Terraform

Job description

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Base pay range

Compensation Range: £135K - £170K

About Lawhive

Our mission is to make the law accessible to everyone. The legal industry is built on technology and processes that haven’t been updated in hundreds of years - that's why we've reinvented the entire model from the ground up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core. Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI-native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionise the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers. Lawhive Labs is how we bring this vision to life. It's our frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law. We’re backed by top‑tier investors, including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures, and in December 2024, we secured $40M Series A funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team, representing one of the five largest Series A rounds in Europe for 2024. We’re headquartered in London and in 2025 successfully launched in the US—and we’re just getting started.

Engineering at Lawhive

We are a team of 40 engineers and researchers, responsible for architecting, building and running Lawhive’s platform, relied on by hundreds of legal professionals every day in the UK, US, and beyond. There are lots of problems we have yet to solve, and plenty we’re not aware of yet! In the next 12 months, we’re focused on:

• Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions. We’re not satisfied with “chat” as a default and are inventing a new paradigm for human/machine interaction
• Building modularity and country independence into the heart of our platform. We’ve recently expanded to the US and are building the world’s first global consumer law firm
• Full stack AI-native legal services: we’re not only building software, we’re an AI-native law firm

The Role

This role is all about building the next evolution of Lawhive’s platform - making a difference to our customers and propelling Lawhive to the next step-change in growth. On a daily basis you’ll be working alongside designers, product managers, AI researchers, and the wider engineering group. As an engineer, you’ll be responsible for the inception of software in design and development phase, all the way through to testing, release, and running in production.

A day at Lawhive as an engineer might look something like:

• 9:30am: Team updates in standup
• 10am: Join a “Lawyer walkthrough” to learn more about how one of our marketplace lawyers use the product
• 11am: Review a “tech proposal” suggesting changes to one of our key services
• 11:30-5pm: Time for some heads down engineering time! Our core platform is a TypeScript based monorepo
• 4pm-5pm: Join our fortnightly engineering meeting to hear about other teams’ updates, share what your team has been working on, and listen to a deep‑dive talk

Tech stack and day‑to‑day tools

• TypeScript for the majority of our applications, frontends, and microservices
• Python for data ingestion and our AI services
• AWS for our cloud infrastructure
• Postgres for our data storage
• Terraform for defining infrastructure as code

What The Job Involves

• Building entire products and features using modern technologies across the entire stack with a highly technical team
• Resolving technical issues and making critical decisions which affect our apps, sites and projects
• Delivering delightful user experiences and being user‑focused in decision making
• Ensuring our products evolve quickly and safely with the best development, security and testing practices
• Ensuring your own and the team’s code and product quality is consistently high and improving
• Assisting with hiring and technical leadership

Requirements

• You’re opinionated and want to help us change the legal system for the better
• You have a track record of delivering exceptional work and can demonstrate it
• You have experience in fast paced and high growth environments
• You are highly organised and can demonstrate your attention to detail
• You’re motivated and ambitious, capable of learning and adapting quickly
• You have deep understanding of our tech stack having built modern apps using best practices
• You’ve been a senior contributor in a high output engineering team and have experience moving fast (Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps, Serverless)
• You have worked in product teams alongside product managers and designers
• You have built products from the ground up and can confidently solve most product problems
• You have worked in product‑driven companies making decisions which impact tens of thousands of users
• You have an eye for design and knowledge of best security practices

Interview process

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• 1:1 with your hiring manager
• Live technical assessment - systems design and pairing with two of our engineers
• Values interview with our CTO/Co‑founder
• We offer!

UK Benefits

• 💰 Meaningful early‑stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups
• ✈️ 33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off
• 💰 Pension contribution via Nest
• 💷 20% off legal fees through Lawhive
• 💻 Top‑spec Macbook
• ⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials!

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive, we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team, and as we scale, we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.

Employment details

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level. Employment type: Full‑time. Job function: Engineering and Information Technology. Industries: Law Practice.

Location

London, England, United Kingdom