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The Role
This role is all about building the next evolution of Lawhive’s platform - making a difference to our customers and propelling Lawhive to the next step-change in growth.
On a daily basis you’ll be working alongside designers, product managers, AI researchers, and the wider engineering group. As an engineer, you’ll be responsible for the inception of software in design and development phase, all the way through to testing, release, and running in production.
A day at Lawhive as an engineer might look something like
- 9:30am: Team updates in standup
- 10am: Join a “Lawyer walkthrough” to learn more about how one of our marketplace lawyers use the product
- 11am: Review a “tech proposal” suggesting changes to one of our key services
- 11:30-5pm: Time for some heads down engineering time! Our core platform is a TypeScript based monorepo
- 4pm-5pm: Join our fortnightly engineering meeting to hear about other teams’ updates, share what your team has been working on, and listen to a deep-dive talk
Our tech stack and day to day tools are
- TypeScript for the majority of our applications, frontends, and microservices
- Python for data ingestion and our AI services
- AWS for our cloud infrastructure
- Postgres for our data storage
- Terraform for defining infrastructure as code
What the job involves
- Building entire products and features using modern technologies across the entire stack with a highly technical team
- Resolving technical issues and making critical 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 and the team’s code and product quality is consistently high and improving
Requirements
- You’re opinionated 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 senior 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 and can confidently solve most product problems
- 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
Interview process
- Introductory call with our Talent team
- Live technical assessment - systems design and pairing with two of our engineers
- 1:1 with your hiring manager
- Values interview with our CTO/Co-founder
- We offer!
