Senior Platform Engineer

Lawhive; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal tech firm in Greater London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and maintain cloud infrastructure. The role involves managing deployment pipelines, ensuring security compliance, and collaborating with product teams for reliable software delivery. The ideal candidate will bring extensive DevOps experience, a passion for efficiency, and a strong security mindset. This opportunity offers meaningful equity and generous benefits including 33 days of leave and top-spec equipment.

Benefits

Meaningful early-stage equity

33 days annual leave

Pension contribution

20% off legal fees

Top-spec equipment

Regular team-building activities

Qualifications

• Deep experience in infrastructure and security at fast-paced environments.
• Strong release and deployment experience with CI/CD systems.
• Passion for developer experience and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
• Contribute to system design as the platform scales.
• Ensure security and compliance of systems and data.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud deployment

CI/CD systems

Security mindset

Typescript ecosystem

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Postgres

Github Actions

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 Senior Platform Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure that underpins all of Lawhive’s products. You’ll own our cloud environments, deployment pipelines, security foundations and observability, working closely with product engineers to ensure they can ship quickly and reliably. This role is hands‑on and focused on creating a resilient, scalable platform as we continue to grow and evolve our systems.

What the job involves

• Deployment patterns and practices - Building and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines (GHA, AWS, ECS, K8s)
• Infrastructure and system architecture - Building and maintaining on our platform infrastructure, and contributing to system design as we scale
• Security and compliance - Executing on security and compliance roadmaps and hardening our software, systems and data security. Ensuring we have access controls, audit and compliance processes in place.
• Observability and Reliability - Owning monitoring and alerting systems to ensure we can inspect our services and respond to incidents
• Developer Experience and Cross‑team collaboration - Working with product engineering teams to improve our developer experience

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 and day‑to‑day tools are

• 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 you’ll bring

• Deep experience in DevOps, infrastructure and security at pace - You have worked in fast moving start/scale‑ups that ship hourly.
• Strong release, deployment and cloud experience - You have worked extensively with CI/CD systems and modern cloud deployment patterns, Github Actions, Docker, Terraform, AWS.
• Passion about developer experience and productivity - Working with product engineers to create simple solutions to move fast regardless of the tech stack.
• Knows modern product engineering patterns and practices - Have experience working in product‑centric companies and familiarity with the Typescript ecosystem, product testing practices, and solid system design fundamentals.
• Strong security mindset, experience in environments handling sensitive data and systems with strong access controls.

Interview process

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• 1:1 with your hiring manager
• Technical interview
• 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 equipment – MacBook/Windows

⛳️ 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.