Staff Full Stack Engineer - AI LegalTech Scale-Up

Burns Sheehan; City Of London; Remote; GBP 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge tech scale-up is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team. You will have autonomy in building products using modern technology like Next.js, React, and Typescript. The company offers competitive salaries and stock options, and adopts a remote-first policy with a central London office. This role is ideal for someone who wants to make a significant impact in a dynamic, product-focused environment.

Benefits

Excellent stock options

Remote-first policy

Competitive salary

Opportunity for impact and growth

Qualifications

• Experience leading the design and build of complex solutions in product-driven companies.
• Good knowledge of React, Next.js, and Typescript on AWS.
• Ability to make decisions on new products and features.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new products and features across the stack.
• Work closely with product teams to iterate and improve based on feedback.
• Balance speed with software quality and best practices.

Skills

Product Mindset

Decision Making

Software Quality

Tools

Next.js

React

Typescript

Node.js

Python

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - THE AI Scale-Up of 2025 | Future Unicorn

Up to £160,000 plus excellent stock options

Remote First - London Office for those who want it

Next.js | React | Typescript | Node | Python

Are you a product-focused Staff Software Engineer who enjoys autonomy and wants to build products from end-to-end?

If so, read on…

Staff Software Engineer - We have been exclusively engaged by one of the most exciting tech scale-ups in the UK, who are looking for a Staff Software Engineer as they grow significantly in 2025. They are well-funded, revenue-generating and have found product market fit for their industry disrupting, AI-powered SaaS platform.

The Staff Software Engineer will have a high degree of autonomy, using modern technology like Next.js, React, Typescript/Node and Python to design and build new products and features across the stack, making decisions to deliver outstanding user experience to their customers. They believe in building fast and iterating, working closely with product and customers, to evolve their cutting-edge AI solutions.

What is Staff Software Engineer for them?

• The Staff Software Engineer will have experience of leading the design and build complex solutions in product-driven companies with good knowledge of some or all of React, Next.js and Typescript on AWS.
• You will need a product mindset, working closely with the product team and being comfortable making decisions on new products and features which will impact users.
• The role requires you to embrace moving fast, designing and building products for 0-1, working with regular feedback loops to iterate and improve as you go.
• They would expect strong opinions and pragmatism of how to balance speed with software quality/best practice.

What's in it for you?

• A cutting-edge, product-focused company where you will use the latest technology to build great products that are disrupting an industry.
• The ownership to make an impact and grow.
• Competitive salary and excellent stock options.
• A remote first policy with an office in central London for those who want it.

This is an amazing opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to join a future Unicorn at a key stage in its growth. Please reply with our CV or call Simon for a chat.

Staff Software Engineer - THE AI Scale-Up of 2025

Up to £160,000 plus excellent stock options

Remote First - London Office for those who want it

Next.js | React | Typescript | Node | Python

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.