Leya
The AI workspace for lawyers
Senior Full-stack engineer
About the role
About Leya
In just one year, we’ve transformed from three friends building something cool for the legal industry to collaborating with Europe's top law firms and legal departments. With backing from some of the best VCs in the world, Benchmark, Redpoint, YC, we have the resources to continue investing in the best tech team in the world.
Read more about us here: https://www.leya.law/company
About the Role
Skills: Python, Typescript, React
Role: Senior Fullstack Developer
Type: Full-time
Location: Stockholm, Sweden (On-site)
You will
- Tailor your own role that spans across the entire stack based on what you know and what you want to learn
- Architect and implement features end-to-end for our web platform
- Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development
- Helping break down tasks and ensure their effective execution
- Work with some of the latest technologies and some of the smartest engineers in the industry
- Be challenged and grow very quickly as a developer
- Review code and mentor junior colleagues
Who you are
- Skilled: You have a proven track record of developing both the front- and back-end of reliable products and you are not afraid of responsibility for important and mission-critical software.
- Innovative: You thrive in a dynamic start-up environment where problems don’t always have obvious or easy solutions. You’re a problem solver who’s not afraid to come up with creative solutions and think holistically about software architecture. You are curious and passionate about writing good software, and you’re ambitious about learning and improving yourself as an engineer.
- Autonomous: Although constantly working in a team we believe in self leadership and ownership! You value feedback, take initiative without needing direction, and focus on outcomes. You are not afraid to try new things and learn from your mistakes rather than play it safe.
- Entrepreneurial: Leya is an ambitious start-up. Things move fast, tasks and challenges may be demanding, and responsibilities may change over time. But you’ll get to work with a team of brilliant and dedicated people that are all working to solve difficult problems and really change how legal work is done.
Practical information:
- You’ll get a competitive salary, and you’ll get to own part of the company via stock options
- Office in central Stockholm
- Primarily on-site – some flexibility :)
- We use English for internal communication
- Start date: ASAP. Did we mention we’re fast-paced?
Preferred qualifications:
- 2+ years with Nodejs (Typescript)
- 2+ years with React (Typescript)
- Database design (RDBMS like Postgres and NoSQL like Mongo or Elasticsearch)
- Python
- Unit, integration, and functional testing
Additional experience that’s a plus:
- Nx or other monorepo tools
- CI/CD pipelines
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Azure
- Elasticsearch
- IaC (Pulumi or Terraform)
About Leya
At Leya, we are building the world's best AI assistant for lawyers, helping them with anything from legal research, drafting, review, and day-to-day tasks.
We are assembling an exceptional team to become the leading authority in Legal AI. In 3 months, we’ve gone from 0 to over 50 firms using Leya, and we will grow significantly in 2024. This is an opportunity to join a YC startup with clear PMF that is going after a massive market.
We ship fast, give each other large responsibilities, serving some of the most prestigious firms in the world - and are having a blast doing it. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
