Senior Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Pandektes and help shape the future of legal research. In this role, you'll work at the core of our product - building scalable backend systems, integrating advanced AI technologies, and ensuring our platform remains fast, reliable, and scalable.

About Pandektes

Our ambition is to be the leading platform for legal research globally, and build the largest AI-powered legal database. We're redefining how legal knowledge is accessed, understood, analyzed and applied.

Our platform simplifies legal research using artificial intelligence, intelligent search, and constantly updated legal sources.

Pandektes has raised more than €4 million and most recently closed a €2.9 million seed round (Feb 2025) led by People Ventures, Interface Capital, and leading angels. Pandektes already serves more than 250 customers across Denmark and Germany.

What you’ll do

• Build the backend for various user-facing features and data integrations

• Help in improving our API architecture to ensure scalability, maintainability, and optimal performance while integrating cutting-edge technologies and adhering to best practices

• Keep our platform stable so we can continue to deliver a high-level of availability to our customers

• Identifying the right problems to solve, focusing on meaningful outcomes, and using your experience to make trade-offs that have the highest impact on customers as fast as possible.

• Taking end-to-end ownership for features from start to finish - from inputting into initial design and planning all the way through to implementation, testing, and delivery

• Scale our services so we can ingest larger volumes of data, more efficiently.

What you'll bring

• Building production-ready applications in Typescript with NestJS.

• Experience integrating AI technologies like OpenAI and Pinecone into production systems to build innovative, data-driven solutions. Experience with vector databases, transformers, NLP and LLMs is a plus.

• Strong understanding of GraphQL and database design, including complex querying with transactions, schema management with Prisma ORM and Postgres, and implementing advanced security measures such as row-level security for fine-grained data access control.

• Passion for solving challenging problems in the legal tech space, with a focus on building transparent and user-centric platforms with React.

• Self-starter and comfortable with ambiguity when navigating product challenges, and actively input into shaping product direction. You thrive in early ideation stages, share work-in-progress (such as drafts or MVPs) to gather feedback and actively seek others input.

We encourage people to apply even though you don’t tick all the boxes!

How we work

We're a team of around 30 people based in our Copenhagen office and remotely across Europe. We value collaboration and curiosity and support each other to grow so that we can reach our mission together to redefine how legal research is done across Europe.

We deploy multiple times a day, and we're strong believers in continuous integration and continuous deployment. Our customers trust us with their sensitive data, and security is always top of mind for us. We're looking for someone who shares our passion for building high-quality software and who can help us take our product to the next level.

We believe diverse teams build better products and stronger teams. We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.

What we offer

• The chance to play a key role in a fast-growing startup

• A collaborative work environment where your input is not only valued but often implemented within hours

• 25 vacation days per year + public holidays 🌴

• International team events – last time we went to Prague, and we’d love to have you join us next time 🌎

• Competitive compensation with commission-based pay

• An attractive ESOP program

• Your own Pleo card for necessary work expenses

• Paid parental leave - we know how valuable family time is 👶🏼