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Senior Fullstack Engineer

Orbital

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Job summary

A technology company, Orbital, is seeking a skilled frontend heavy, senior fullstack engineer to join their growing team. This role involves creating an innovative legal AI product aimed at transforming property transactions worldwide. Candidates should have experience in React and TypeScript, with a passion for solving complex technical challenges. The company values autonomy and collaboration, offering perks such as matched pension contributions and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Matched pension contributions

Equity options

Flexible working hours

Professional equipment and development budget

Free lunch on Wednesdays

All-company off-sites and socials

Qualifications

Strong background in frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript.
Proven track record of building user-facing products.
Experience delivering large, complex software engineering systems.

Responsibilities

Own the design and development of key features of the web application.
Collaborate with a cross-functional team to define user stories and ship new features.
Participate in architecture and code reviews.

Skills

Frontend development

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Problem solving

Communication skills

Team collaboration

This range is provided by Orbital. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

We are Orbital an AI company on a mission to automate the legal segment of every property transaction in the world We iterate rapidly to build products that utilise the bleeding-edge of Generative AI. Products that are powered by the latest foundation LLM's (Large Language Models) including GPT-4o and o3. This places us at the forefront of THE most advanced technological advancements of our generation We're spearheading an unprecedented shift in how the world's #1 asset class is transacted, globally.

Legal reasoning is a hard problem and requires some of the smartest and most experienced professionals to solve legal challenges for their clients. Because of this we will continue to push ahead and use the most intelligent and the fastest foundational models to build an AI Assistant that can provide accurate, efficient, and reliable support to legal professionals in the world of real estate.

Already the trusted ally of thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals in the UK across a diverse spectrum of blue-chip firms, our innovative solutions have earned accolades from the UK's magic circle law firms—Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Allen & Overy, Freshfields, and Slaughter & May—as well as renowned organisations like Tesla and Marks & Spencer. Now in the early stages of an international expansion, we're continuing to expand our talented team to support our growth.

Bolstered by the support of industry giants, including some of the world's largest real estate and insurance companies such as JLL, First American Financial, and Investec and on the back of our £7.5 million Series A funding round led by Parker89 , we're on the lookout for exceptionally talented people to join us in shaping the future of property transactions under this new evolution of technological advancement.

We believe that property transactions in this century shouldn't still rely on busy lawyers checking through documents and writing reports. We're building an AI assistant with the expertise of a high-performing real estate associate at a law firm.

Our mission is to help any professional or individual involved in a property transaction to properly understand what they are getting into, from the outset, before incurring legal fees.

We are Bold & Ambitious (changing an entire industry is hard!)
We give Power to our People (we give exceptional people autonomy to succeed)
We Question or Commit (we welcome debate, but love reaching quick decisions)
... and we Eat that Frog! (we take on the hardest thing first)

We're looking to speak to frontend heavy, senior fullstack engineers, as we've launched the industry's first legal AI Agent and have seen phenomenal growth in both revenue and usage in the last 18 months. Orbital Copilot is a new product which is delivering much needed automation in Real Estate transactions across the country and internationally, with a view to transforming the way property is transacted. We have a successful existing product which helps real estate professionals extract key information & create reports from legal documents. We're evolving this product to add further value to our user base.

With the recent release of many Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and o3, we've continued to adopt bleeding edge frontier models. This is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about learning how to utilise this in production use cases.

You'll own the end-to-end design and development of key features of our web application along with the underlying services that support it. You'll be joining a small, dynamic and fast-paced team with a focus on quality, usability and impact. You'll be involved in every stage of the development lifecycle; from discovery and design, through implementation to deployment, maintenance and continuous improvement. You will be supported by a cross-functional, collaborative and growing team in delivering an impactful product, initially to lawyers and then to a wider set of B2B customers.

Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company's ambitious growth plans
Shape how we structure our frontend architecture to optimise for scale, speed of iteration and quality
Develop, test, refactor, deploy, maintain and support production software
Collaborate with a cross functional team (a AI product manager, a legal domain experts , AI engineers and software engineers) to define user stories, quickly experiment and ship new features along with implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market
Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications
Ensure compliance with security policies and ISO 27001 by protecting sensitive data and following secure coding practices to prevent breaches, injection, and unauthorised access.

Requirements

You should apply if you: ️

Have a strong background in frontend development - ideally React, TypeScript and/or Next.js
Care about solving the technically challenging problems we're tackling for our customers
Value shipping early and often to get customer feedback and then iterating quickly to improve the product
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Have a proven track record of building user-facing products and have the ability to put yourself in the shoes of the customer.
Have proven experience delivering large, complex software engineering systems

It would also be nice if you have:

Have experience with Backend development - ideally Python
Experience working with LLM's and OpenAI's API in particular
Built or integrated with highly secure, fault tolerant APIs
Experience building high performance, distributed systems at scale
Proven experience of driving and using modern dev practices like BDD, TDD, 12 Factor, CI/CD

As part of our commitment to information security, all employees are expected to adhere to company security policies and procedures, participate in mandatory security awareness training, and ensure the secure handling of sensitive data in line with ISO 27001 standards. Reporting potential risks or incidents is a key part of fostering our culture of security and compliance.

Matched pension contributions and equity options in a fast growing start-up
Flexible working hours and location
Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
Free lunch on Wednesdays and a Deliveroo budget if you're working late from the office
An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials

We value diversity at Orbital, and would particularly encourage applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. We'd love to hear from you even if you don't match all of the above criteria or are seeking other opportunities that we're not currently advertising.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
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Job function

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Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet

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