Frontend Engineer

Legora; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 750,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora is seeking a Frontend Engineer based in Stockholm to shape the product experience used by legal professionals worldwide. You’ll design, develop, and improve the frontend of our platform, collaborating with backend teams to deliver robust features.

You’ll work with React, TypeScript, and Node.js, own key parts of the codebase, and push for performance, accessibility, and long-term sustainability. This in-person role emphasizes collaboration, design systems, and a culture of excellence in a

Qualifications

• An engineer with experience building and shipping modern web products.
• A strong frontend engineer, comfortable working across the stack and able to contribute to backend code when a feature calls for it.
• Passionate about writing maintainable, secure code, and take pride in building things that last.
• A problem solver who enjoys thinking about frontend architecture, state management, data flows, and long-term sustainability.
• Passionate about performant frontend code, with experience improving web vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and keeping large UIs fast as they grow.
• Care about accessibility and build interfaces that work for everyone (WCAG, keyboard navigation, screen readers).
• Familiar with how your code is deployed and run in the cloud (experience with enterprise-scale systems is a plus, but not required).
• Proactive, curious, and motivated by working in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of end-to-end features for our web platform, focusing on user-facing experience and ensuring performance, accessibility, security, and reliability.
• Take full ownership of critical parts of the codebase, balancing quality, scalability, and speed of development.
• Work with React, TypeScript, and Node.js, leveraging the right tools to solve complex challenges.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into elegant, robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to frontend architecture, design systems, and integration discussions for sustainable evolution.
• Drive continuous improvement by challenging assumptions and exploring new technologies to push the team to innovate.
• Review code and mentor colleagues, raising the overall technical bar and fostering excellence.

Skills

Frontend development

Web performance

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Accessibility

Cloud deployment

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar. Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes. 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler. We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law. Joining Legora means three things.

• We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
• We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
• We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.

If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

The role

As a Frontend Engineer at Legora, you’ll play a key role in building the product experience that legal professionals around the world rely on every day. You’ll design, develop, and improve the frontend of our platform, from the architecture and design system to the features that define how our users work, while collaborating closely with backend teams across the stack.

• This is a Stockholm-based, 5-day in-office role, we believe building together in person drives better outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of end-to-end features for our web platform, with a focus on the user-facing experience, ensuring high performance, accessibility, security, and reliability.
• Take full ownership of critical parts of the codebase, balancing quality, scalability, and speed of development.
• Work with technologies such as React, TypeScript, and Node.js, leveraging the right tools to solve complex challenges.
• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to translate requirements into elegant, robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to frontend architecture, design systems, and integration discussions to ensure the platform evolves sustainably.
• Drive continuous improvement by challenging assumptions, exploring new technologies, and pushing both yourself and the team to innovate.
• Review code and mentor colleagues, raising the overall technical bar and fostering a culture of excellence.

Who You Are

• An engineer with experience building and shipping modern web products.
• A strong frontend engineer, comfortable working across the stack and able to contribute to backend code when a feature calls for it.
• Passionate about writing maintainable, secure code, and take pride in building things that last.
• A problem solver who enjoys thinking about frontend architecture, state management, data flows, and long-term sustainability.
• Passionate about performant frontend code, with experience improving web vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and keeping large UIs fast as they grow.
• Care about accessibility and build interfaces that work for everyone (WCAG, keyboard navigation, screen readers).
• Familiar with how your code is deployed and run in the cloud (experience with enterprise-scale systems is a plus, but not required).
• Proactive, curious, and motivated by working in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.