Senior Software Development Engineer

Law Cyborg Limited; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Law Cyborg Limited in Christchurch, NZ is hiring a senior full-stack engineer (backend-heavy) to own product surfaces end to end, from architecture and delivery to production and operation. You will collaborate with product teams to shape what should exist and then ship it for thousands of users across NZ and beyond.

The role emphasizes ownership, high agency, and leveraging AI tooling to ship faster while maintaining robust systems and clear written communication.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience with ownership of complete features.
• Ability to own product surfaces end to end from design through production.
• Proficient in modern web tech and AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more product surfaces from concept to production and operation.
• Collaborate with product and design to turn needs into maintainable software.
• Ensure reliability, performance and observability across services.
• Work asynchronously and communicate clearly in writing and code.

Skills

5+ years experience

System ownership

Async-first development

Ownership mindset

Education

Experience >5 years in software

Tools

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Jest

Docker

Datadog

GitHub Actions

React

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Law Cyborg Limited – Christchurch, South Island

Nylon is the AI research platform for tax and law professionals.
The tool practitioners reach for when the answer has to be right. We're used by 2,000+ firms across NZ, AU and the UK, backed by Blackbird, and expanding fast beyond research into the wider workflow professionals live in: client meetings, documents, the tools firms already use.

About us

Nylon is the AI research platform for tax and law professionals.
The tool practitioners reach for when the answer has to be right. We're used by 2,000+ firms across NZ, AU and the UK, backed by Blackbird, and expanding fast beyond research into the wider workflow professionals live in: client meetings, documents, the tools firms already use.

The role

We're hiring senior full-stack engineers (backend-heavy) to own product surfaces end to end: architecture, delivery and operational excellence. You'll work with product from "should this exist?" through to running in production, then keep iterating on real usage. Your work lands with thousands of firms across NZ, AU and the UK.

What you could own

We're hiring for four key surfaces. You'll have one as your primary (we'll agree which during the process) and work across the others.

• The answer experience: the heart of Nylon. How a professional asks a hard question and trusts what comes back. Retrieval, citations, verification, speed.
• Identity, billing & the public API: make Nylon work as well for a 500-seat firm as for a sole practitioner. SSO, entitlements, usage metering and the API other platforms build on.
• Integrations: the wedge into the daily workflow. Outlook, Xero, practice-management systems. Each one pulls Nylon deeper into how a firm actually runs.
• Workflows: help professionals engage clients and gather the facts behind the advice. Meeting AI is the first: already in real client meetings, capturing conversations and connecting them back to research.

How we work

• AI-native. Agentic dev tooling (Claude Code) is the development loop.
• You run what you ship. Owning a surface includes its production health, observability, performance and incident response.
• Async-first. Clear writing is a first-class engineering skill here.
• No prescribed solutions. We agree the problem and the constraints; how you solve it is yours.

About you

We care most about evidence of ownership, but you've likely got 5+ years of commercial software development experience.

• You can point at a system you took from design to production and then operated.
• High agency: biased towards action, you own outcomes, not tasks.
• You decompose hard problems and reason in trade-offs, out loud and in writing.
• You already use AI tooling to ship faster, and you're curious about where that goes next.
• You build robust systems to reduce the 2am pages.

Stack

• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Terraform
• Jest
• Docker
• Datadog
• GitHubActions CI/CD
• React