Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Methodfi; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal tech firm in London seeks a Staff Full Stack Engineer to build innovative products and enhance user experiences. Candidates should have a passion for improving the legal system through technology, with proven experience in high-paced environments. This role involves working with a modern tech stack and contributing to a mission of equal access to the law. Benefits include generous holidays and equity options.

Benefits

34 Holidays

Equity options

Pension

Team building activities

Discounted legal fees

Qualifications

• Experience delivering exceptional work in high-growth environments.
• Deep understanding of modern tech stack and best practices.
• Experience in product-driven companies impacting many users.

Responsibilities

• Build entire products and features using modern technologies.
• Resolve technical issues and make critical decisions.
• Deliver delightful user experiences and maintain product quality.

Skills

Fast-paced work environment

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Ability to learn and adapt quickly

User-focused decision making

Technical leadership

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Python

Job description

About Lawhive

We're on a mission to make sure everyone has access to the law.
Lawhive is an online platform for consumers and small businesses to get legal help for a fraction of the cost of a law firm. Our platform combines regulated human lawyers collaborating alongside the world’s first AI lawyer, specifically built for consumer legal work.

Equal access to the law is one of the biggest and most pressing unsolved problems in society today. We’re passionate about leveling the playing field and believe access to the law should be a basic utility in society.

Our AI lawyer Lawrence is built on top of our own fine tuned LLM and recently passed the UK’s bar exam equivalent.

We’re backed by some of the top US and UK VC funds including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures. We recently secured a $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.
The Role

We’re hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to help to build our platform, sites, and suite of AI products.

Reporting to engineering leadership, you’ll be a highly experienced member of the product team, responsible for building delightful products and technically complex systems. You’ll be working in a fast paced, deeply technical team across the entire stack, including productising AI research.

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

Our Engineering Culture

• Ship daily - We’re building and releasing features fast, going from idea to production in hours rather than weeks.

• Empathise with users - Lawyers and legal clients have unique perspectives, preferences and expectations. We build products which understand them deeply.

• Strive for excellence - We’re ambitious and moving fast. The whole business is pushing to be a category defining legal tech company.

• Constantly learning and experimenting - We’re at the cutting edge of using AI to directly improve people’s lives. We take a blue-sky but pragmatic approach to how we apply new technologies.

Our Tech Stack

• TypeScript (Full-stack)

• React + Next.js, Tailwind, Prisma, TanStack Query, tRPC

• PostgreSQL, Redis, Inngest

• Vercel, AWS, Github Actions, Terraform

• Python, FastAPI

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

UK Benefits:

✈️ 34 Holidays (25 days annual leave + your birthday off + bank hols in England)

💰 Equity (Share Options)

💰 Pension

⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials!

💷 20% off legal fees through Lawhive

US Benefits:

🩺 Healthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover

✈️ Vacation: 20 days + 11 Federal holidays + 1 day of Birthday leave

💰 401k: Matching contribution up to 2% of salary

💰 Equity: Options in Lawhive LTD