Senior Backend Engineer

Leya

Leya

Software Engineering
Stockholm, Sweden
Posted on Nov 21, 2024
Engineering · Kraków, Stockholm

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.

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Engineering · Kraków, Stockholm

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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