Senior Backend Engineer
We are fast-moving, highly ambitious, love shipping, and deeply care for our users. At Leya, you won’t only experience the future, but you will get to dictate it.
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About us:
Leya is working to empower lawyers and automate legal work. Our approach is to enable the lawyer of the future: a human-AI lawyer who's an order of magnitude more effective than a team of conventional legal professionals. The human-AI lawyer will iterate at the speed of their judgment, even in the most complex legal scenarios, and will out-smart and out-deliver the best pure AI system.
You are joining an early-stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit that thousands of lawyers use daily at global institutions such as Bird&Bird, Mannheimer Swartling, and Heineken. Backed by $37M in funding from top investors like Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator, Leya is a group of exceptional engineers, lawyers, and doers. Here, you will have infinite room to grow and rethink how truly worthwhile work gets done.
The role:
As a Backend Engineer at Leya you will build, review and ship amazing products helping legal professionals all over the world in their day-to-day job. You’ll get the chance to work across the entire tech stack with clear ownership and autonomy.
What you will be doing:
Architect and implement features for our web platform
Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development
Work with technologies such as Node.js, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
Review code and mentor junior colleagues to support them in their development, making the team even better!
Drive continuous improvement and challenge us, the industry and yourself
Who you are:
A passionate engineer with several years of experience building great products using cutting-edge technologies
You feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack, with focus on backend development
You’re autonomous and take pride in the code you write
You’re a problem solver who’s not afraid to come up with creative solutions and think holistically about software architecture
Experience in infrastructure and integrations are a big plus
What’s in it for you:
Career development opportunities in a rapidly evolving entrepreneurial environment.
Direct collaboration with senior leadership and the opportunity to directly impact company growth and strategy.
A collaborative, high-energy team environment where your ideas and contributions are valued and implemented.
Competitive salary complemented with a transparent and highly competitive options program.
Centrally located offices in Stockholm, London, and NYC, designed as a space for you to do your life's work.
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- Engineering
- Locations
- Stockholm
About Leya
We founded Leya with the vision of giving lawyers the tools they deserve.
We didn't build Leya for how law is practiced today; we built it for how it should be practiced tomorrow.
Senior Backend Engineer
We are fast-moving, highly ambitious, love shipping, and deeply care for our users. At Leya, you won’t only experience the future, but you will get to dictate it.
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