Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Lawhive Ltd; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering legal tech firm in Westminster is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to support building its platform and AI products. The role involves developing entire products using a modern tech stack, resolving technical challenges, and contributing to the team’s growth. Ideal candidates will have experience in fast-paced environments, a strong technical background, and the ability to lead effectively in a product-driven context. This opportunity contributes to improving legal access for all.

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering exceptional work and demonstrating it.
• Experience in fast-paced and high growth environments.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Motivated, ambitious, and quick to learn.
• Deep understanding of the tech stack with experience in modern apps.
• Senior contributor in high output engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build entire products and features using modern technologies.
• Resolve technical issues and make critical decisions.
• Deliver user-focused experiences.
• Ensure high code quality consistency.
• Assist with hiring and technical leadership.

Skills

Delivering exceptional work

Fast paced environments

Attention to detail

Learning and adapting quickly

Understanding of modern app best practices

High output engineering team experience

Product-driven decision making

Design eye

Tools

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

We're hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to help build our platform, sites, and suite of AI products. Reporting to engineering leadership, you'll be a highly experienced member of the product team, responsible for building delightful products and technically complex systems.

What the job involves

• Building entire products and features using modern technologies across the entire stack with a highly technical team
• Resolving technical issues and making critical decisions which affect our apps, sites and projects
• Delivering delightful user experiences and being user-focused in decision making
• Ensuring our products evolve quickly and safely with the best development, security and testing practices
• Ensuring your own and the team's code and product quality is consistently high and improving
• Assisting with hiring and technical leadership

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

• TypeScript (Full-stack)
• React + Next.js, Tailwind, Prisma, TanStack Query, tRPC
• PostgreSQL, Redis, Inngest
• Vercel, AWS, Github Actions, Terraform
• Python, FastAPI

Qualifications

• You have a track record of delivering exceptional work and can demonstrate it
• You have experience in fast paced and high growth environments
• You are highly organised and can demonstrate your attention to detail
• You're motivated and ambitious, capable of learning and adapting quickly
• You have deep understanding of our tech stack having built modern apps using best practices
• You've been a senior contributor in a high output engineering team and have experience moving fast (Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps, Serverless)
• You have worked in product teams alongside product managers and designers
• You have built products from the ground up and can confidently solve most product problems
• You have worked in product-driven companies making decisions which impact tens of thousands of users
• You have an eye for design and knowledge of best security practices

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.