Lead Software Engineer Libra Legal AI Assistant; m​/w​/d

Overview

As a Lead Software Engineer (m/w/d) in the Legal & Regulatory division, you will help legal and compliance professionals enhance productivity, mitigate risk, and solve complex problems. You will join our fast-growing team automating knowledge work for legal professionals and contribute to backend and frontend development in a lean, agile environment. This role is based at the Merantix AI Campus in Berlin and offers high impact and ownership over key product features.

• Design, implement, and maintain product features across the stack—from backend APIs to frontend interfaces.
• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to deliver intuitive, high-performing user experiences.
• Ensure code quality, security, and scalability through best practices and thoughtful architecture.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and help shape the engineering culture.
• Explore and integrate AI tools and agents to enhance developer productivity and product capabilities.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree preferred in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in product software engineering.
• Strong experience with Python, particularly FastAPI and asynchronous programming.
• Solid proficiency in Type Script; experience with Svelte is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices and security principles.
• Experience using AI coding agents like Cursor or Claude Code.
• Bonus:
  You’ve built or contributed to LLM-powered products.
• Skills:
  
  Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership and urgency; pragmatic problem solving; focus on solving problems over using hype technologies; accountability and commitment to high-quality outcomes; excellent English communication;
  German is a plus.

This is a hybrid role, where you will spend at least eight days a month at our office to enable in-person collaboration.

Permanent employment from day one. Remote work & flexibility:
Work remotely up to 3 days per week (home office) with at least eight days per month in the office, and flexible working hours. Work from anywhere within the EU for up to 20 days in a twelve-month period. 26 vacation days. 1 additional day off per year for volunteer work. Access to development resources including e-learning and language training opportunities.