Senior Software Engineer
Hi đ Weâre Legl.
Legl is building the operating system for modern legal services.
We help law firms and regulated businesses replace manual, fragmented workflows with intelligent software from client onboarding and compliance to payments, risk, and reporting.
Legal work is high-stakes. Itâs regulated, complex, and deeply human. The software supporting it has historically been slow, manual and brittle. We believe it doesnât have to be that way.
Weâre backed by leading European VCs (Series B), scaling quickly, partnered with over 500 law firms including 40 of the UKâs top 200, launched in the UK and Australia - and entering our next phase of growth.
How We Work
We are builders. At Legl, the lines between Engineering, Product, and Design are intentionally blurred.
Senior engineers donât just âimplement ticketsâ - they shape problems, challenge assumptions, talk to customers, make trade-offs, and stay accountable for outcomes over time. Your job isnât to ship features; itâs to deliver meaningful product and business value quickly.
We work best when:
Ownership is individual, collaboration is intentional.
Decisions are shaped early using customer context and evidence
Feedback is fast and continuous
Process supports momentum, not the other way around
Youâll collaborate closely with Product and Design, but youâll also be expected to independently drive work forward from vague problem statements to shipped solutions to measurable impact.
AI Is Not a Side Project Here
At Legl, AI is a core part of the engineering toolkit, not an experiment or a productivity hack.
We use AI deliberately to:
Enable engineers and non-engineers to move faster safely
Push beyond traditional stack boundaries
Increase leverage and reduce repeated manual work
Improve decision quality
Strong judgement matters. We care about correctness, safety, and customer trust just as much as speed. Using AI well means knowing when to use it, how to validate outputs, and where human judgement must stay in the loop.
What Youâll Do
As a Senior Engineer at Legl, youâll:
Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces end-to-end across the stack
Shape problems collaboratively with Product and Design, grounding decisions in real customer evidence
Build, ship, and iterate with clear accountability for customer and business outcomes
Use AI, tooling, and automation to create leverage for yourself and other.
Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term simplicity
Actively enable the rest of the company by building tools, patterns, and workflows that help Legl prototype, validate, and ship faster
Youâll be trusted to make decisions and expected to stand behind them.
This Role Is a Great Fit IfâŚ
You thrive in autonomy and enjoy taking responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks
Youâre product-centric and naturally think in terms of customer value
Youâre comfortable working across the stack and stepping outside your âlaneâ when needed
You use AI as a core part of how you think, build, and make decisions, not just a productivity aid
You value simplicity, testability, and fast feedback
You enjoy hard problems and continuously look for better ways to build and ship software
This Role Is Not a Great Fit IfâŚ
You need tightly defined tickets, sprint planning, or heavy process to move forward
You are uncomfortable relying on AI as part of your everyday engineering and decision making
You prefer implementation-only roles with clear handoffs from PMs and Designers
Youâre uncomfortable with ambiguity or owning decisions end-to-end
Youâre not interested in engaging deeply with customer problems
You want structure to substitute for ownership
Legl is building the operating system for modern legal services.
We help law firms and regulated businesses replace manual, fragmented workflows with intelligent software from client onboarding and compliance to payments, risk, and reporting.
Legal work is high-stakes. Itâs regulated, complex, and deeply human. The software supporting it has historically been slow, manual and brittle. We believe it doesnât have to be that way.
Weâre backed by leading European VCs (Series B), scaling quickly, partnered with over 500 law firms including 40 of the UKâs top 200, launched in the UK and Australia - and entering our next phase of growth.
How We Work
We are builders. At Legl, the lines between Engineering, Product, and Design are intentionally blurred.
Senior engineers donât just âimplement ticketsâ - they shape problems, challenge assumptions, talk to customers, make trade-offs, and stay accountable for outcomes over time. Your job isnât to ship features; itâs to deliver meaningful product and business value quickly.
We work best when:
Ownership is individual, collaboration is intentional.
Decisions are shaped early using customer context and evidence
Feedback is fast and continuous
Process supports momentum, not the other way around
Youâll collaborate closely with Product and Design, but youâll also be expected to independently drive work forward from vague problem statements to shipped solutions to measurable impact.
AI Is Not a Side Project Here
At Legl, AI is a core part of the engineering toolkit, not an experiment or a productivity hack.
We use AI deliberately to:
Enable engineers and non-engineers to move faster safely
Push beyond traditional stack boundaries
Increase leverage and reduce repeated manual work
Improve decision quality
Strong judgement matters. We care about correctness, safety, and customer trust just as much as speed. Using AI well means knowing when to use it, how to validate outputs, and where human judgement must stay in the loop.
What Youâll Do
As a Senior Engineer at Legl, youâll:
Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces end-to-end across the stack
Shape problems collaboratively with Product and Design, grounding decisions in real customer evidence
Build, ship, and iterate with clear accountability for customer and business outcomes
Use AI, tooling, and automation to create leverage for yourself and other.
Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term simplicity
Actively enable the rest of the company by building tools, patterns, and workflows that help Legl prototype, validate, and ship faster
Youâll be trusted to make decisions and expected to stand behind them.
This Role Is a Great Fit IfâŚ
You thrive in autonomy and enjoy taking responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks
Youâre product-centric and naturally think in terms of customer value
Youâre comfortable working across the stack and stepping outside your âlaneâ when needed
You use AI as a core part of how you think, build, and make decisions, not just a productivity aid
You value simplicity, testability, and fast feedback
You enjoy hard problems and continuously look for better ways to build and ship software
This Role Is Not a Great Fit IfâŚ
You need tightly defined tickets, sprint planning, or heavy process to move forward
You are uncomfortable relying on AI as part of your everyday engineering and decision making
You prefer implementation-only roles with clear handoffs from PMs and Designers
Youâre uncomfortable with ambiguity or owning decisions end-to-end
Youâre not interested in engaging deeply with customer problems
You want structure to substitute for ownership