Platform Engineer, SeedLegals
£60-90k
One-stop platform for legals for startups
Open for applications
One-stop platform for legals for startups
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£60-90k
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're driven to solve complex problems and optimising system performance
- You have strong experience in developing and managing infrastructure on cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- You're proficient with infrastructure-as-code principles and practical experience using tools like Terraform
- You have knowledge and experience with monitoring and alerting tools to maintain system health and performance
- You have a strong understanding of Linux operating system fundamentals
- You have a proven record in designing dataflow solutions that move data between internal and third party systems, via services using APIs or workflow automation tools (e.g. n8n)
Desirable
- Familiarity with the Agile manifesto and methodologies
- Experience in developing production-quality software using languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Python
What the job involves
- We're seeking talented platform engineers to join one of our engineering team
- Working alongside our CTO, Head of Cloud, and other engineers, you'll have the autonomy to drive improvements in the infrastructure, reliability, and security of our platform
- This is also 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 could prepare you for entrepreneurship yourself
- Design, implement, and manage highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions on cloud platforms, with a focus on AWS
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform to automate provisioning and deployments
- Ensure the security, availability, and performance of the infrastructure components and systems
- Monitor, analyse, and optimise system performance to meet service-level objectives
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to the platform and infrastructure
Application process
- 1) ~40min initial conversation (video call)
- 2) A ~1.5hr technical interview
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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