Senior Backend Engineer
Leya
Senior Backend Engineer
We are fast-moving, highly ambitious, love shipping, and deeply care for our users. At Leya, you won’t only experience the future, but you will get to dictate it.
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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:
As a Backend Engineer at Leya you will build, review and ship amazing products helping legal professionals all over the world in their day-to-day job. You’ll get the chance to work across the entire tech stack with clear ownership and autonomy.
What you will be doing:
Architect and implement features for our web platform
Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development
Work with technologies such as Node.js, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
Review code and mentor junior colleagues to support them in their development, making the team even better!
Drive continuous improvement and challenge us, the industry and yourself
Who you are:
A passionate engineer with several years of experience building great products using cutting-edge technologies
You feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack, with focus on backend development
You’re autonomous and take pride in the code you write
You’re a problem solver who’s not afraid to come up with creative solutions and think holistically about software architecture
Experience in infrastructure and integrations are a big plus
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
- Kraków, Stockholm
About Leya
We founded Leya with the vision of giving lawyers the tools they deserve.
We didn't build Leya for how law is practiced today; we built it for how it should be practiced tomorrow.
Senior Backend Engineer
We are fast-moving, highly ambitious, love shipping, and deeply care for our users. At Leya, you won’t only experience the future, but you will get to dictate it.
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