Senior Corporate Counsel (UK)

Coder; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Coder is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel in the United Kingdom to lead drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts with customers and business partners. You will partner with Sales, Deal Desk, and Finance to balance business goals with risk management and provide practical legal guidance throughout the deal lifecycle.

With 6+ years of in-house experience and a JD, you will bring strong commercial judgment and clear communication to support growing contracts and help shape

Qualifications

• 6+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience negotiating commercial software licensing contracts.
• A JD from an accredited law school.
• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with a current practicing certificate, or otherwise qualified to practice law in another jurisdiction.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience working with business stakeholders.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple negotiations and priorities with attention to detail.
• A practical approach to legal advice, distinguishing material risks from issues that should not slow a deal down.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts with customers and business partners.
• Partner closely with Sales and Deal Desk throughout the contracting process.
• Work with Finance and other internal stakeholders to resolve commercial and contractual issues.
• Provide practical legal guidance that balances business goals with appropriate risk management.
• Help move negotiations forward by identifying issues, explaining tradeoffs, and finding workable solutions.
• Support consistent, efficient contracting practices as Coder grows.

Skills

In-house experience

Commercial judgment

Contract drafting

Negotiation management

Written & verbal communication

Multitasking & prioritisation

Practical legal advice

Education

JD from accredited law school

Job description

As Senior Corporate Counsel, you’ll help Coder move commercial agreements from the first redline to signature with clarity and good judgment. You’ll partner closely with Sales, Deal Desk, and Finance to negotiate contracts that support the business while managing legal risk.

You’ll lead negotiations across our commercial agreements and help teammates work through legal questions as deals progress. You’ll bring practical guidance, clear communication, and a strong understanding of how in-house legal teams support growing businesses.

What you’ll do here

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts with customers and business partners.

• Partner closely with Sales and Deal Desk throughout the contracting process.

• Work with Finance and other internal stakeholders to resolve commercial and contractual issues.

• Provide practical legal guidance that balances business goals with appropriate risk management.

• Help move negotiations forward by identifying issues, explaining tradeoffs, and finding workable solutions.

• Support consistent, efficient contracting practices as Coder grows.

What we’re looking for

• 6+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience negotiating commercial software licensing contracts.

• A JD from an accredited law school.

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with a current practicing certificate, or otherwise qualified and in good standing to practice law in another relevant jurisdiction

• Strong commercial judgment and experience working directly with business stakeholders.

• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills.

• The ability to manage multiple negotiations and priorities while maintaining attention to detail.

• A practical approach to legal advice, with the judgment to distinguish material risks from issues that should not slow a deal down.

Bonus tacos if you have

• (Tacos? If you need an ice-breaker, ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)

• Experience working with open source software or open source licensing.

About Coder

Coder is the leading platform for AI development Infrastructure, enabling enterprises to securely run human and AI-driven development workflows in consistent, governed environments. Coder provides self-hosted, agent-ready workspaces that unify developer productivity and platform governance. With Coder, enterprises can confidently evolve from human-only development to AI-assisted and autonomous workflows, without sacrificing security, compliance, or performance. Learn more at coder.com.

Interview process

We believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow. Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders.

AI use during the interview process

As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.

Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews.

Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly.

Our use of AI in hiring

We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly. Specifically:

• Ashby helps us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements we've defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions; it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.

• Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you.

All hiring decisions are made by humans. Our team reviews applications, conducts interviews, and makes final selections. AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment, and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection, AI governance, and labor laws. Your data is not used to train AI models.

In accordance with New York City Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on "Automated Employment Decision Tools"; results are available for Ashby.

If you're applying for a role at Coder and have questions about how we use AI in our process, or if you'd like to request information about the data we collect, please contact [e-mail].

Coder is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.