Software Engineer, Legl
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Digitalising an archaic industry - modernising law firm operations.
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Digitalising an archaic industry - modernising law firm operations.
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
Legl is on a mission to help everyone access the law, by giving law firms the tools to reduce costs, generate more revenue and take on more clients; giving clients the best experience in this changing legal market.
Role
Who you are
- Good knowledge of JavaScript programming language with experience using modern frontend frameworks
- Comfortable in Test Driven Development approaches would be beneficial but not essential
- Passionate about technology, and excited to learn through experience and collaboration
- Product-minded, always aim to understand the core of the problem and focus on the objective you’re aiming to achieve
- Committed to continuous improvement, and have mentored, trained or led engineers to success
- Write clean, performant, tested and maintainable code
- Care about impact, love a challenge, and take ownership of your work
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer at Legl, you’ll be actively involved in every aspect of our technology operations
- Embedded in one of our cross-functional squads, you’ll design and build elegant solutions to complex user problems
- Collaboration, continuous learning and continuous improvement are integral to our ways of working, so we don’t delineate Engineers into different types, but your primary focus will be on the front-end
- Embedded within one of our agile squads, contributing towards the end-to-end delivery of innovative software solutions
- Approach engineering from a product-led perspective, understanding the root challenge within problems and solving the core functionality for law firms & their clients
- Support the ongoing maintenance of our codebase and the operation of our platform
- Contribute to efforts to improve Engineering team ways of working, as well as our conventions, practices, technologies and tackling of technical debt
- Immerse yourself in the continuous improvement of our backend capabilities, whilst remaining curious about the wider stack
- After 6 months, your success in the role will be determined by how well you’ve…
- Embodied value driven delivery, optimising for what’s important to our customers, their clients and our business and doing so in a heavily collaborative environment
- Demonstrated your technical proficiency in building effective, simple and testable solutions, that you know work
- Shown that you can progress on your own journey of personal development, with support from your manager and the rest of the Engineering community at Legl
- Taken to supporting the whole platform, through architectural, tooling, technology and refactoring changes as a member of one of our technical communities of practice
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The legal industry is becoming increasingly dependent on technology, such as through analytical tools being used to pore through documents, and automation systems converting physical documents into digital content. Legl wants to transform the industry, bringing technology to its heart. The company's platform contains new tools for law firms to use, including improved systems for online payments, compliance, raising awareness around legal issues, and helping consumers have a better experience of the law.
Legl is not alone in this field: other SaaS companies, such as LawOn, are similarly aiming to streamline the legal process. However, legal tech is still in its infancy so there's definitely room for multiple players.
The biggest challenge facing Legl will be getting firms on side, especially the large firms that dominate most of the spend in the space. The legal industry is notoriously slow moving, so uptake might be slow initially. However, if Legl can fulfil its ambitions to help law firms grow and succeed in a digital-first world, there is no reason why it shouldn't see great success in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
43% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$18m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Choice of equipment
- Season tickets or Cycle-to-Work scheme
- Regular company off-sites and social events
- 26 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- A dynamic, remote-first culture, where we focus on making work work for you. We give generous budgets for home set-ups, co-working space use if you need or want it, office spaces for collaboration in person
- A focus on wellbeing, with a personal wellbeing budget
- A generous learning and development budget
- Share options, so we all share in Legl’s success
- Opportunity to join a well-funded, post-Series B startup with product-market-fit to grow, expand and scale, in our mission to make legal services better for everyone
Company values
- Ambition
- Agility
- Collaboration
Company HQ
Islington, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Julia Salasky
(CEO)Previously an associate at Linklaters and a lawyer at the United Nations.
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