Senior Backend Engineer, SeedLegals
£70-90k
One-stop platform for legals for startups
Job no longer available
One-stop platform for legals for startups
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£70-90k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help entrepreneurship become accessible to everyone by providing founders with tools to create, build, and scale their ideas.
Role
Who you are
- You love solving challenging problems
- You love building high-performance APIs
- Have experience working with, and enjoy working with JVM languages (Java and Kotlin), and Spring
- You know how to provide a great PR review
- You have experience with software engineering best practices like test-driven development, and have a deep appreciation for what good code looks like
- You own and take pride in contributing to all stages of development
Desirable
- You have some personal projects on the go (maybe you write a blog, help with friends’ websites, contribute to open source projects etc.)
- Through your work, you have started looking more into the performance of web applications
- You believe in the Agile manifesto
What the job involves
- You'll play a pivotal role in mentoring more junior developers, decision making on architecture, and contributing to our code base
- Working in a scrum team alongside ~five engineers, a UX designer, and a Product Manager, you'll have autonomy to drive innovation in areas like social investment features, document and workflow management, and legal template generation
- Teams are managed from within and report directly to the CTO, so you'll be working alongside with your manager to solve technical problems
- This is a unique opportunity to gain extensive knowledge of the startup world, VC fundraising, investor tax schemes, and more. As you work on complex projects, you'll also gain invaluable domain knowledge that will prepare you for entrepreneurship yourself
Application process
- 40min initial conversation (video call)
- A ~2hr technical interview. Here, we'll ask you to work through designing a solution to a real world technical challenge we've faced, as well as some questions about your experience with backend code in production environments
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Increasing numbers of startups are getting funded in the UK and all require legal help with their financing.
SeedLegals identified a big burning pain: no founder wants to handle a bad fundraising experience because of legals. Previously founders would have to pay a decent chunk of the money they've just worked hard to raise, but the SeedLegals platform has provided a step change in cost.
The focus on a very specific niche (startups) has meant they have built a very tailored product, and word of mouth within startups is strong.
While they primarily focus on helping companies with fundraising, they also offer additional services (e.g. option schemes), and they're in a strong position to expand their offering to other legal needs.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I’m working with so many industry experts with a wealth of knowledge in different areas, and everyone is really happy to share their knowledge with..."
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$4m
SERIES A
Jul 2017
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Volunteer days - Up to 3 days per year
- Private healthcare and life insurance
- Private pension
- Hybrid working
- Learning, development and networking opportunities
- Share options. You’ll be eligible for the SeedLegals performance-based share option scheme
- Great offices with free fruit and coffee, overlooking the gorgeous gardens at Lincoln's Inn Fields
- £250 Working-from-home allowance to set up your home office
- Classpass
- Lunch is on us! Up to once a week (when in the office)
- Cycle to work scheme
- A extra day off for your birthday!
Company values
- We are driven by customer success
- We are committed to a growth mindset
- We invest and trust in each other
- We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Anthony Rose
(CEO)Serial entrepreneur, founded two businesses before (6tribes and Beamly) and launched BBC iPlayer
Laurent Laffy
(Chairman)Previously Managing Partner of Arts Alliance (VC Fund) and has a Harvard MBA
People progressing
Joined as Startup Funding Associate, being promoted to CX Team Lead after 1 year
Diversity & Inclusion at SeedLegals
Michelle Keelin (Head of HR)
- Here at SeedLegals we recognise diverse teams are more effective and solve problems more creatively. The challenge is to create an environment where individuals feel empowered to be themselves and use their diverse talents, backgrounds and characteristics to create positive outcomes for the business.
- We believe it is critical to create psychologically safe spaces where people can voice ideas and be themselves. To ensure our employee voices and opinions are heard we created our Impact Team, built from volunteers in a variety of roles across the business, to give each person a voice and help structure policies and commitments to diversity and inclusion.
- Adding to this, in September 2023 we launched our new values, one of them being our commitment to embracing DE&I. 'We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion'. We commit to DE&I by building it into our hiring practices, training programs, policies, and overall culture.
- If you would like to know more on our Values, please feel free to reach out to me and I will be happy to talk further.
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