Front End Engineer

Help us simplify legal transactions

A large segment of the legal industry works on transactional legal processes. Building a wind farm, merging two companies or selling a skyscraper - lawyers help make these things happen and their work is surprisingly similar to planning and leading a technology project. There are documents to be produced, agreements to get signed, and a whole lot of detail to be understood, agreed and made clear. There’s an order in which things need doing and there are stages that need to be complete before you can move on.

For example, how do you make sure that when you buy a building you’re getting all the land you think you’re getting? How do you make sure you don’t fund a wind farm and then find that there is no permission to build it or that the people you funded are scammers? How do you make sure there isn’t an ambiguous clause that’ll make it all go wrong? You get a lawyer to manage the transaction.

Since the dawn of Microsoft Word, this humble word processor has been the default way to manage these legal transactions. We want to change this, by building a platform that allows transactions to be managed online, and in a collaborative way. That means we’re on a mission to transform the $600bn market for legal services worldwide.

Our customers include some of the world’s top law firms, such as Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills, Shearman & Sterling and King & Wood Mallesons. And we’ve been used on transactions in more than 60 countries.

The Role

As a Front End Engineer, you will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams in a Scrum to build and maintain user interfaces for our web applications. You will be responsible for implementing designs, optimising performance, and ensuring a seamless user experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Implementing user interfaces and logic behind them for our web applications
• Collaborating with our Product team and other engineers to shape features and to ensure the best possible user experience
• Identifying and resolving bugs and issues
• Participating in code reviews and contributing to the continuous improvement of our product and our development processes
• Optimising web application performance and responsiveness

Who you will be working with

Konrad Kierus, Front End Lead - who you will be reporting into, alongside a welcoming, inclusive and committed team.

Team culture is really important to us. We are looking for someone who is excited to join us as a key employee at this important stage in our growth and who will bring new and exciting perspectives to Legatics. We are a friendly and passionate bunch with a wide range of interests. We love to socialise together too and hold regular team events.

Requirements

What we need from you

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Frontend Engineer
• 3+ years of professional experience in React framework
• Experience with GraphQL
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of modern web development best practices
• Experience in architectural patterns and best practice for building internet-facing systems
• Experience with Git and familiarity with code versioning and branching
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively in a team environment
• Well-structured working style
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Upper-intermediate level of English

Bonus points for the following (but don't worry, these are NOT essential)

• Experience in Redux and RxJS
• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with unit, component and integration testing frameworks
• Experience with UI/UX design and prototyping tools
• Experience with GitLab
• Experience with Jira
• Familiarity with server-side solutions like Node.js, Mongo, Express, Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure

We’re interested in hiring a diverse range of candidates from all different backgrounds, so if you’re not sure if you meet our requirements, we’d still love to hear from you.

Benefits

What we offer you:

• 20 days holiday per year (plus public holidays);
• Early Finish Fridays - on the last Friday of every month, we finish at lunchtime!
• Pension with NEST.
• Personal Learning & Development budget.
• Access to Mental healthcare for you and your immediate family.
• Enhanced parental leave policies so you can spend more time with your family.
• Lots of opportunities for accelerated professional development and career progression.
• Work alongside a supportive and talented team with the opportunity to grow one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups.
• A warm, genuinely collaborative culture and an awesome team; and
• Regular socials.

Technology

We follow a microservices approach written in Node.js on AWS, managed using Terraform, Kustomize and Kubernetes. GraphQL and Apollo are used between front- and backend. Our frontend is an SPA built with React and Redux, with some Ramda. We have a dedicated test / QA team, doing a combination of manual and automated testing.

We work according to DevOps principles and we’re working towards full CI/CD, aiming for frequent small releases supported by feature flags, distributed config management, monitoring & tracing, etc.

Power in diversity

We put users at the heart of our design to provide legal transaction experiences that everyone loves. In order to make that a reality, we seek to foster a diverse and inclusive working environment that can empower our people to be creative, effective and innovative, to build a brand we are proud of.

We don’t discriminate against gender, race, religion or belief, disability, age, marital status or sexual orientation. Whatever your background may be, we welcome anyone with talent, drive and emotional intelligence. We're committed to building a diverse team and are constantly looking for ways to improve our processes to help us do that.