Tech Lead

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 leveling 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 UK’s bar exam equivalent.

We’re backed by some of the top US and UK VC funds including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures. We recently secured a $40M Series A funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team, representing one of the five largest Series A rounds in Europe for 2024.
What the job involves

• Making critical technical decisions which affect our apps, sites and projects

• Responsible for delivering high quality results and creating a performant engineering team

• Ensuring code, product quality and team health is consistently high and improving

• Working with Engineering Leadership to collaborate on large technical decisions, product direction, user experience, architectural design and development processes

• Line management of engineers within the team, including 1-1s, regular timely feedback and support for professional growth

• Building a thriving and engaging engineering culture focused on Lawhive’s mission, fast delivery, technical quality and collaboration

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 which 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 improves 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, TanStack Query, tRPC

• PostgreSQL, Redis, Inngest

• Vercel, AWS, Github Actions, Terraform

• Python, FastAPI

Requirements

• You have a track record of delivering exceptional work and can demonstrate it

• You have experience mentoring and growing those around you

• You have experience in fast-paced and high-growth environments

• You have a deep understanding of the tech stack, having built modern apps using best practices

• You've been a technical leader in a high-output engineering team and have run development practices to move fast (Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps, Serverless)

• You have worked in cross-functional product teams alongside product managers and designers

• You have built products from the ground up and can confidently solve most product problems

• You have worked in product-driven companies making decisions which impact tens of thousands of users

• Ideally, 2+ years of people management experience

UK Benefits:

✈️ 34 Holidays (25 days annual leave + your birthday off + bank hols in England)

💰 Equity (Share Options)

💰 Pension

⛳️ Regular team building activities and socials!

💷 20% off legal fees through Lawhive

US Benefits:

🩺 Healthcare benefits: 'Premium' plan with 100% employee cover and 50% dependent cover

✈️ Vacation: 20 days + 11 Federal holidays + 1 day of Birthday leave

💰 401k: Matching contribution up to 2% of salary

💰 Equity: Options in Lawhive LTD