About us:

At Leya, we’re on a mission to transform the way lawyers work. Our AI-native platform lets legal professionals enhance their productivity and automate complex workflows. We collaborate closely with our clients and iterate at a market-leading pace. In a year, we have gone from an early MVP to tools used daily by thousands of lawyers, and are now scaling rapidly. We are here to win together with our team and clients, and carry the belief that life is too short not to accomplish something truly special.

You are joining an early stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit, trusted by global leaders like Bird & Bird, Pérez-Llorca, and Mannheimer Swartling. Backed by over $35M in funding from top investors including Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator. And an world-class team from Google, Klarna, Spotify, and top tier law firms with infinite room to grow professionally.

The role:

In this role, you'll architect and implement key integrations core to the user experience and Leya product. You will work on and build file uploads, 2-way file syncing, document parsing with OCR and getting all data ready for our AI use cases. Working together with a top-tier team of engineers serving thousands of users you'll own these integrations, balancing speed, security, and code quality to build the backend functionality of our data foundation.

What you will be doing:

• Architect and implement features and improvements across our backend systems, file uploads and processing and integrations with file management platforms

• Take ownership of our product backends and integration systems, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development

• Work with some of the latest technologies and some of the smartest engineers in the industry

• Helping break down tasks and ensure their effective execution

• Be challenged and grow very quickly as a developer

Who you are:

• Skilled: You have a proven track record of developing reliable backend systems and API integrations 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 data and 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2+ years of building backend systems

• Nodejs and Python

• Experience building API-based integrations into systems like Salesforce, Hubspot, Zapier, Sharepoint, iManage, Google Drive etc

• Postgres

Additional experience that’s a plus:

• ORM-systems like Drizzle, Prisma

• Experience with IPaaS’ like Paragon, Integration.dev, Airbyte etc

• GraphQL

• Elasticsearch

• Kubernetes

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive base salary

• Generous stock option program

• 30 vacation days

• 5000 SEK in Wellness contribution

• Pension scheme comparable to ITP1

• Office in the central parts of Stockholm

Team

Engineering

Locations

Stockholm

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