Staff Engineer — Architecture Leader (Hybrid + Equity)

Lexroom.ai; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Milan

Health Insurance

Meal Vouchers

Equity

Team retreats & off-sites

Job summary

Lexroom is building a premier AI platform for the legal sector, currently expanding its engineering organization with a Staff Engineer. The role involves architectural leadership across squads, owning major technical initiatives, and raising the bar for engineering practices.

You will influence teams without direct managerial authority while delivering high-impact systems at scale. Based in Milan with hybrid work, you will navigate frontend, backend, and systems challenges, collaborating with

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, with seniority as Staff/Principal/Founding Engineer or startup CTO.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Broad technical breadth across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Proven ability to drive cross-team initiatives end to end and influence decisions.
• Experience across multiple company types (startup, scale-up, big tech).
• Fluent in English; Italian is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team technical initiatives to deliver large, autonomous projects.
• Make and own architectural and technical decisions across squads.
• Align tech leads and engineering managers on direction without direct authority.
• Help define engineering excellence and serve on interview panels to raise the bar.
• Move flexibly between frontend, backend, systems, and architectural problems as needed.

Skills

Staff/Principal

Distributed Systems

Full-stack breadth

Ownership & Influence

Diverse Contexts

Fluent English

Job description

Lexroom is building a premier AI platform for the legal sector, currently expanding its engineering organization with a Staff Engineer. The role involves architectural leadership across squads, owning major technical initiatives, and raising the bar for engineering practices.

You will influence teams without direct managerial authority while delivering high-impact systems at scale. Based in Milan with hybrid work, you will navigate frontend, backend, and systems challenges, collaborating with