Backend Engineer

SeedLegals Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options: the option to buy

Contributory pension

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Buy and Sell Annual Leave Scheme

Flexible working - hybrid/remote model

Weekly allowance for a free lunch in/0

£250 working-from-home allowance

Annual learning budget

3 paid work days volunteering

Access to Happl - wellbeing

Cycle-to-work scheme

Free lunch in the office

Job summary

SeedLegals Limited is seeking mid-level backend developers to join our team in London. You will contribute to the codebase, participate in architecture decisions, and collaborate with a scrum team of engineers, a UX designer and a Product Manager.

You will help build features around social investment, document/workflow management, AI-powered enhancements, and legal template generation. The team is international with a hybrid working model, offering flexibility to work remotely and in the London

Qualifications

• Experience building backend systems and APIs
• Strong knowledge of JVM languages and Spring framework
• Commitment to test-driven development and high-quality code
• Ability to own and contribute to all stages of development

Responsibilities

• Contribute to codebase and design decisions within a scrum team
• Drive architectural decisions and improve backend systems
• Develop features including AI-enabled capabilities and document/workflow management
• Support and review code to ensure robust, scalable services

Skills

Backend development

API development

Code review

Testing

Team collaboration

Tools

Kotlin

Spring

Job description

SeedLegals is the leading provider of automated legal solutions for startups, with offices in London, New York and Paris. Since launching in 2016, we’ve supported over 75,000 startups who have collectively raised more than £2bn on our platform.

We’re a Series A company backed by Index Ventures, on a mission to make entrepreneurship more accessible and scalable.

Our values are key to our success; here at SeedLegals, we:

• Invest and trust in each other;
• Are committed to a growth mindset;
• Embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion;
• And are driven by customer success.
  

About the Role

We're seeking talented mid level backend developers to join our team. You'll play a pivotal role in individual contribution to our codebase, and contributing to decision making on architecture. Working in a scrum team alongside 6-8 engineers, a UX designer, and a Product Manager, you'll have autonomy to drive innovation in areas like social investment features, document and workflow management, products enhanced with AI, and legal template generation. Teams are managed from within and report directly to the Director of Engineering, so you'll be working alongside with your manager to solve technical problems.

This is a unique opportunity to gain extensive knowledge of the startup world, VC fundraising, investor tax schemes, and more. As you work on complex projects, you'll also gain invaluable domain knowledge that will prepare you for entrepreneurship yourself.

About the Team

We're an international team of around 20+ developers from 12 countries based in the UK and France, with a hybrid working model that allows for flexibility and collaboration. While each team meets fortnightly at our offices near Old Street to whiteboard, plan, and socialise, you'll also have the freedom to work remotely.

We’d love to hear from you if...

• You love solving challenging problems
• You love building high-performance APIs
• You love working with AI agentically
• Have experience working with, and enjoy working with JVM languages (Kotlin), and Spring
• You know how to provide a great PR review
• You have experience with software engineering best practices, like test-driven development, and have a deep appreciation for what good code looks like
• You own and take pride in contributing to all stages of development

And if you can hit one or two of these as well, even better...

• You have some personal projects on the go (maybe you write a blog, help with friends' websites, contribute to open source projects etc.)
• You've worked with LLMs such as Claude, and written your own plugins/skills/agents
• Through your work, you have started looking more into secure coding practices, and write secure code from first principles
• You have a deep understanding of how to monitor web applications, including agentic micro-services
• You understand what a product engineer is, and lean into it
• Believe in the agile manifesto

Why join SeedLegals:

You’ll join a friendly, motivated and multicultural team of founders, investors, developers and growth hackers. We’re based near Old Street, in the heart of London.

• Share options: the option to buy shares in SeedLegals via our performance-based share option scheme
• Contributory pension, private healthcare, critical illness cover + life insurance
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Buy and Sell Annual Leave Scheme
• Flexible working - hybrid/remote model with London office access
• Weekly allowance for a free lunch in the office
• £250 working-from-home allowance to set up your home office
• Annual learning budget for training courses, conferences and books
• 3 paid work days per year for volunteering
• Access to Happl - with monthly flexible spend on wellbeing
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Free lunch in the office once per week

Our Interview Process:

1. 30min initial call (video call)
2. Up to two 1hr technical interviews. Here, we'll ask you to work through designing a solution to a real world technical challenge we've faced, as well as some questions about your experience with backend code in production environments.
3. 30min interview with Anthony Rose, our CEO