Senior Front End Software Engineer

About Lawhive

Our mission is to make the law accessible to everyone. The legal industry is built on technology and processes that haven’t been updated in hundreds of years – that’s why we’ve reinvented the entire model from the ground up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core. Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI‑native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionize the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers.

Lawhive Labs is the frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law. We’re backed by top‑tier investors, including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures, and in December 2024 we secured $40M Series A funding to facilitate international expansion and grow our team. We’re headquartered in London and successfully launched in the US in 2025 – and we’re just getting started.

We are a team of 40 engineers and researchers, responsible for architecting, building and running Lawhive’s platform, relied on by hundreds of legal professionals every day in the UK, US and beyond. In the next 12 months, we’re focused on:

• Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions – we’re not satisfied with “chat” as a default and are inventing a new paradigm for human/machine interaction
• Building modularity and country independence into the heart of our platform – we’ve recently expanded to the US and are building the world’s first global consumer law firm
• Full‑stack AI‑native legal services – we’re not only building software, we’re an AI‑native law firm

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 stand‑up
• 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 Type Script‑based monorepo
• 4‑5pm:
  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

• You have strong experience working with Type Script to build products in design/product‑led cross‑functional teams
• You have experience working with infrastructure as code
• You have experience running services in production and responding to incidents
• You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and you thrive when given the ownership to bring clarity to what we’re building
• You have a product focus and are excited by the idea of learning more about our customers and shaping your work to make our product better for them
• You consider yourself an expert in one area of software engineering and are excited by the idea of sharing that expertise with the rest of the team

• Introductory call with our Talent team
• 1:1 with your hiring manager
• Live technical assessment – systems design and pairing with two of our engineers
• Values interview with our CTO/Co‑founder

• Meaningful early‑stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups
• 33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off
• Pension contribution via Nest
• 20% off legal fees through Lawhive
• Top‑spec Mac Book
• Regular team‑building activities and socials

At Lawhive, we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team, and as we scale, we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.