Front-End Engineer

Posted 10 Days Ago
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United Kingdom
3-5 Years Experience
Legal Tech
The Role
The Front-End Engineer will build products and features for an online legal platform, ensuring excellent user experiences while working with a technical team. Responsibilities include resolving technical issues, maintaining high code quality, and assisting in hiring. The role emphasizes rapid development cycles and user-centered design, especially in AI-driven applications.
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Description

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 a Front-end Engineer to help build our platform, sites and AI products.

Reporting to engineering leadership, you’ll be an experienced product team member, responsible for building delightful products and revolutionary user experiences. You’ll be working in a fast-paced, deeply technical team, including building new AI-driven experiences.

What the job involves

  • Building entire products and features using modern technologies with a highly technical team
  • Resolving technical issues and making critical decisions that affect our apps, sites and projects
  • Working with front-end best practices in mind (usability, libraries, component architecture) across our sites and apps
  • Delivering delightful usable user experiences and being user-focused in decision making
  • Ensuring our products evolve quickly and safely with the best development and testing practices
  • Ensuring your own and the team’s code and product quality is consistently high and improving
  • Assisting with hiring and technical leadership

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 that 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
Requirements
  • 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 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 consumer products from the ground up and can confidently solve most UI/UX problems
  • You have worked in product-driven companies making decisions which impact tens of thousands of users
Benefits
  • ✈️ 34 Holidays (25 days annual leave + your birthday off + bank hols in England)
  • 💰 Equity (Share Options)
  • 💰 Pension
  • 🏠 Quality home workstation setup/equipment
  • ⛳️ Regular team building activities, socials, and annual retreat!

Top Skills

Python
Typescript
The Company
HQ: London
20 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

We’re bringing the joy back to practicing the law. Lawhive is a cutting-edge legal tech platform that helps self-employed solicitors earn more while doing less admin, combined with a fully SRA regulated law firm that offers peace of mind and professional support every step of the way.

Based in the UK, we are backed by leading investors, founders and executives who previously backed Zoopla, Monzo, Bloom & Wild, AllPlants, LoveFilm and Shazam. We regularly make appearances on stage at SRA events and are advised by former SRA executive director, Crispin Passmore.

Learn more and join Lawhive here: www.lawhive.co.uk/work-with-us/

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