Full-Stack Engineer

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 levelling 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 Solicitors Qualifying Exams (SQE).

We have backing from leading US and UK VC funds including Google Ventures and Episode 1, and from founders and executives who've built some of the biggest startups like Bloom & Wild, Primer, SignalAI, Spotify, Meta, Curve, Monzo, Tide.

The Role

We’re hiring Full Stack Engineers to help to build our platform, sites, and suite of AI products.

Reporting to engineering leadership, you’ll be an experienced member of the product team, responsible for building delightful products and technically complex systems. You’ll be working in a fast paced, deeply technical team across the entire stack, including productising AI research.

What the job involves

• Building products and features using modern technologies across the entire stack with a highly technical team
• Resolving technical issues and making 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 code and product quality is consistently high and improving

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, tRPC
• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Serverless, AWS, Google Cloud, Github Actions
• DBT, BigQuery
• Terraform
• Python

• You’re opinionated AF and want to help us change the legal system for the better
• 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 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
• 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

• ✈️ 34 Holidays (25 days annual leave + your birthday off + bank hols in England)
• 💰 Equity
• 💰 Pension
• 🏠 Quality home workstation setup/equipment
• ⛳️ Regular team building activities, socials, and annual retreat!