Senior Front-end Engineer at Lawhive

We’re on a mission to make sure everyone has access to the law.

We combine human lawyers with artificial intelligence to radically reduce legal costs for consumers and small businesses.

We’re hiring a Senior Front-end engineer to help build our platform, sites and AI products.

Reporting to engineering leadership, you’ll be a highly experienced member of the product team, responsible for building delightful products and revolutionary user experiences. You’ll be working in a fast-paced, deeply technical team, including building new AI-driven experiences.

What the job involves

• Building entire products and features using modern technologies with a highly technical team
• Resolving technical issues and making critical decisions that affect our apps, sites and projects
• Owning front-end best practices (usability, libraries, component architecture) across our sites and apps
• Delivering delightful usable user experiences and being user-focused in decision making
• Ensuring our products evolve quickly and safely with the best development and testing practices
• Ensuring your own and the team’s code and product quality is consistently high and improving
• Assisting with hiring and technical leadership

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 that 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 improve 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, tRPC
• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Serverless, AWS, Google Cloud, Github Actions
• DBT, BigQuery
• Terraform
• Python

Requirements

• You’re opinionated AF and want to help us change the legal system for the better
• You have a track record of delivering exceptional work and can demonstrate it
• You have experience in fast paced and high growth environments
• You are highly organised and can demonstrate your attention to detail
• You’re motivated and ambitious, capable of learning and adapting quickly
• You have deep understanding of our tech stack having built modern apps using best practices
• You’ve been a senior contributor in a high output engineering team and have experience moving fast (Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps, Serverless)
• You have worked in product teams alongside product managers and designers
• You have built consumer products from the ground up and can confidently solve most UI/UX problems
• You have worked in product-driven companies making decisions which impact tens of thousands of users
• You have an exceptional eye for design, interaction and usability

Benefits

• 33 days paid holiday a year + your birthday off
• Employer pension contributions
• We're a fully distributed team across the UK
• Regular team get-togethers and socials