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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, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures (who have funded 82 unicorns between them!). We recently secured a $40m Series A funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team. This represents one of the five largest Series A rounds in Europe for 2024!
The roleWe're looking for a candidate who’s motivated to be in a 0-1 role in a fast scaling start up, who wants to shape the strategy and build a function from the ground up. Our AI-driven infrastructure presents unique challenges that require innovative solutions—leveraging modern, non-traditional tooling. You'll thrive on experimentation, enjoy pushing the boundaries of cloud and open-source technologies. This role would suit an Engineer who wants to be at the cutting edge of Ing=frstructure, Site reliability and the AI industry.
What you’ll be doing:
- Infrastructure Leadership – Owning and improving our infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, observable, and resilient. Sharing infrastructure best patterns and practices across the engineering team.
- Observability & Reliability – Owning monitoring and alerting systems to ensure we can react to and prevent incidents. Improving our architecture in response to reliability issues.
- DevOps & CI/CD patterns and practices – Improving and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines and to ensure multiple teams are empowered to deploy quickly. Ensuring rapid recovery from failures.
- Security & Compliance – Take ownership of security across the engineering org, ensuring access controls, auditing, and secure development practices are in place as we scale. Own meeting regulatory goals in our systems (GDPR, ISO27001, SOC2).
- Cross-Team Collaboration – Work closely with engineering teams, providing expertise and hands-on support where needed, without taking direct ownership of their services.
- 0-1 Work & Scaling – Define and implement foundational DevSecOps strategies, shaping how our engineering team operates at scale.
- Reporting to Head of Engineering – Act as a key technical leader, influencing architecture and engineering culture.
What we’re looking for:
- Deep experience in infrastructure, DevOps, and security in a fast-moving environment.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and owning user-facing systems at scale.
- Strong security mindset, experience in environments handling sensitive data and systems with strong access controls.
- Proven experience working with product teams and CI/CD pipelines at scale, with a focus on DORA metrics.
- A hands-on technical leader who can collaborate on the organisation’s technical direction and is able to execute on the details.
- ✈️ 34 Holidays (25 days annual leave + your birthday off + bank hols in England)
- 💰 Equity
- 💰 Pension
- ⛳️ Regular team building activities, socials, and annual retreat!
- 💷 20% off legal fees through Lawhive
Lawhive London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
