About LEAP
You’ll be joining LEAP, part of ATI Global, one of the world’s largest LegalTech groups. Our product teams are building a fast-growing portfolio of AI-powered applications for law firms. Your job is to give those teams everything they need – paved-road tooling, automated guardrails and AI-powered assistants – so they can spend their time building product, not navigating process.
If you’re an engineer who thinks like an architect, loves automating the hard and boring parts, and wants to shape how a whole business adopts AI, this is the role for you.
Meet the team
This is your chance to design and build the engineering and AI platform for a global LegalTech business – one where guardrails are automated, compliance is built in, and people only step in when something genuinely needs a decision.
We’ve defined a development and release framework for our application teams with one clear objective: a manage-by-exception model. Instead of manual reviews and approval meetings, every application continuously reports its security, AI, quality and compliance status – and people only get involved when something is out of policy.
The framework and its target architecture are designed. Your job is to build it, automate it and make it real for the teams who use it. It starts with our application development teams, and that is the main focus – but you’ll have the opportunity to drive adoption of the framework across the whole business.
AI runs through all of it. You’ll help the business adopt AI widely, safely and cost-effectively – building the governance that shows who is using AI, how and at what cost, and the tools that help more people use it well.
What you'll do
Build the platform architecture
- Turn a defined target architecture into working shared services: build and deployment pipelines, environments, secrets management, an LLM gateway and observability.
- Design a “paved road” that makes the secure, compliant way to build and ship an app the easiest way.
- Own architecture decisions, document them clearly and evolve the architecture as the business grows.
Automate guardrails and manage by exception
- Build automated release gates into CI/CD: security scanning (SAST, dependency, secrets, IaC), SBOMs and policy-as-code that stops non-compliant deployments.
- Automate evidence collection so every application’s release readiness is visible at a glance, with failing or stale evidence flagged automatically.
- Build the dashboards that let leaders see the state of every application and step in only on exceptions.
Build AI-powered guardrails and bots
- Build AI agents and bots that speed up the development cycle – automated code and security review, release-readiness checks, documentation and developer self-service.
- Remove friction so engineers get environments, keys, access and answers without waiting on other people.
Drive AI adoption and governance
- Help build an AI governance framework that shows who is using AI, for what, and what it costs – across both our products and internal use.
- Route model usage through a governed LLM gateway with model allow-listing, cost attribution and usage telemetry.
- Drive adoption of AI coding tools and agents across engineering and the wider business, and help people get the most value at the lowest cost.
Build apps and integrations
- Build the integrations that connect product teams to platform APIs, internal services and external AI providers.
- Stay hands-on – much of what you design, you’ll build.
Make it happen across teams
- Work with product teams, security, DevOps, legal, quality and product leaders to agree standards and turn them into working systems.
- Drive adoption of the framework – first across our application teams, then across the business.
- Run workshops, write clear documentation and enable others – leading through influence rather than authority.
What you'll bring
You’re an engineer who thinks like an architect and delivers like a builder. You see the whole system, automate anything you do twice, and enjoy bringing many teams to a better way of working.
You are:
- Pragmatic architect – you design for reality and ship working increments.
- Automation-first – if a person is checking it, you ask whether a machine could.
- A connector – comfortable working across many teams and building consensus.
- AI-native – you use AI tools every day and have strong views on using them well and cost-effectively.
- A clear communicator – you can explain trade-offs to engineers and executives alike.
- Security-minded – you build controls in rather than bolt them on.
You are the type of person who
LEAP is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.
Why join LEAP?
- Your work matters. Helping lawyers help people sits at the heart of everything we do. We solve real world problems that improve and support local, everyday law firms. So they can do their best work for the people in the communities they serve.
- Make an impact. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.
- Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.
- Flexible and hybrid working. We'd like to find this person in Sydney, but we want you to work in a way that suits you and we're open to flexible arrangements that support you.
- Grow your career with us. Our founder Christian Beck has been building legal tech businesses for over 30 years. There are opportunities galore to expand your career based on where your interests lie. We're not afraid to pivot based on market conditions - you will always have the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and do your best work here.
- Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
- We value your well-being - enjoy an additional paid wellbeing day every year, free gym membership, corporate dental plan and weekly massages in the office.
- Work in a new, beautiful office space – with a catered lunch and breakfast every week, fully stocked kitchen and an on-site barista.
- Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to LEAP to support you in buying your primary residence.
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Skills Required
- Experience designing and building platform architecture and shared engineering services
- Strong automation-first engineering approach
- Experience implementing security, compliance, and policy controls in development and release processes
- Hands-on experience building integrations, platform APIs, and internal or external service connections
- Experience using AI tools and understanding AI governance, usage, and cost management
- Ability to work across engineering, security, DevOps, legal, quality, and product teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining trade-offs to technical and executive audiences
- Ability to lead through influence, run workshops, write documentation, and enable other teams
What We Do
LEAP practice management software has grown from the belief that it should be fast and easy for legal practitioners to manage matter documents, accounting and billing, so they can focus on practicing law. Today, LEAP is the world’s largest provider of legal practice management software for small firms; with clients across the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Firms have relied on LEAP since 1992 for innovative and powerful software to simplify their workflow. We take this responsibility seriously and dedicate millions of dollars each year to product development. It’s resulted in benefits such as a cloud-based and mobile interface. This allows teams to access their LEAP data anywhere, anytime. In addition, over 13,000 automated forms and templates are regularly updated for all areas of law, and purpose-built for the United States’ federal and state jurisdictions. We’re obsessive about evolving LEAP with feedback from clients, so the software is easy to use and allows small firms to get more work done. Our goal is to empower small firms to make more money. After all, everything LEAP does is geared toward helping the attorneys who help people. Let the LEAP team become an extension of your practice, so you can focus on what you do best. Spend more time advising on the law!
