Senior Backend Engineer

About us:

Legora is working to empower lawyers and automate legal work. Our approach is to enable the lawyer of the future: a human-AI lawyer who's an order of magnitude more effective than a team of conventional legal professionals. The human-AI lawyer will iterate at the speed of their judgment, even in the most complex legal scenarios, and will out-smart and out-deliver the best pure AI system.

You are joining an early-stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit that thousands of lawyers use daily at global institutions such as Bird&Bird, Mannheimer Swartling, and Heineken. Backed by $35M+ in funding from top investors like Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator, Legora is a group of exceptional engineers, lawyers, and doers. Here, you will have infinite room to grow and rethink how truly worthwhile work gets done.

The role:

As a Backend Engineer at Legora you will build, review and ship amazing products helping legal professionals all over the world in their day-to-day job. You’ll get the chance to work across the entire tech stack with clear ownership and autonomy.

What you will be doing:

• Architect and implement features for our web platform
• Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development
• Work with technologies such as Node.js, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
• Review code and mentor junior colleagues to support them in their development, making the team even better!
• Drive continuous improvement and challenge us, the industry and yourself
  
  

Who you are:

• A passionate engineer with several years of experience building great products using cutting-edge technologies
• You feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack, with focus on backend development
• You’re autonomous and take pride in the code you write
• You’re a problem solver who’s not afraid to come up with creative solutions and think holistically about software architecture
• Experience in infrastructure and integrations are a big plus
  
  

What’s in it for you:

• Career development opportunities in a rapidly evolving entrepreneurial environment.
• Direct collaboration with senior leadership and the opportunity to directly impact company growth and strategy.
• A collaborative, high-energy team environment where your ideas and contributions are valued and implemented.
• Competitive salary complemented with a transparent and highly competitive options program.
• Centrally located offices in Stockholm, London, and NYC, designed as a space for you to do your life's work.
  
  

We founded Legora with the vision of giving lawyers the tools they deserve.

We didn't build Legora for how law is practiced today; we built it for how it should be practiced tomorrow.