Lawhive
Legal Tech
StaffPythonEngineer
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“Staff Python Engineer at Lawhive. Skills: Python, AI Engineering, Infrastructure. Develop production-ready APIs. Develop services exposing AI functionality”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Python experience, Scalable backend systems, API design familiarity, Distributed systems architecture familiarity, Event-driven architectures experience, Cloud platforms experience, Observability best practices understanding, Monitoring best practices understanding, Debugging best practices understanding
Nice to Have
LLM Observability & Evaluation, Langfuse experience, Optimising performance experience, Scaling distributed AI workloads experience, ML Ops experience, Full-stack Typescript experience, Vector databases hands-on work, Hybrid retrieval methods hands-on work, Retrieval quality evaluation hands-on work, Agentic & Orchestrated Systems exposure, Multi-step reasoning exposure, Agent frameworks exposure, Orchestration tools exposure, Collaboration with researchers experience, Legal Tech prior experience, Legal industry understanding, Legal technology solutions experience
What You'll Do.
Develop production-ready APIs
Develop services exposing AI functionality
Improve reliability for AI applications
Improve monitoring for AI applications
Collaborate with AI engineers
Ensure smooth deployment of AI workflows
Ensure smooth deployment of AI models
Work with event-driven architectures
Work with async workflows
Process large-scale AI workloads
Ensure security in AI services
Ensure compliance in AI services
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
AI researchers; Software engineers; Product teams
Full Job Description
ABOUT LAWHIVE Our mission is to make the law accessible to everyone. The legal industry is built on technology and processes that haven’t been updated in hundreds of years - that's why we've reinvented the entire model from the ground up with our own bespoke AI operating system at the core. Lawhive is a regulated law firm with an AI-native platform built to amplify expertise and revolutionise the way people practice law, leading to exceptional outcomes for clients and lawyers. Lawhive Labs https://labs.lawhive.co.uk/ is how we bring this vision to life. It's our frontier lab that combines top engineering, design, AI and legal talent from around the world, joining forces to build the future of law. We’re backed by top-tier investors, including Google Ventures, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures, and in early 2026, we secured $60M Series B funding round to facilitate international expansion and to grow our team. We’re headquartered in London and in 2025 successfully launched in the US…and we’re just getting started. ENGINEERING AT LAWHIVE We are a team of 40 engineers and researchers, responsible for architecting, building and running Lawhive’s platform, relied on by hundreds of legal professionals every day in the UK, US, and beyond. There are lots of problems we have yet to solve, and plenty we’re not aware of yet! In the next 12 months, we’re focused on: - Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions. We’re not satisfied with “chat” as a default and are inventing a new paradigm for human/machine interaction - Building modularity and country independence into the heart of our platform. We’ve recently expanded to the US and are building the world’s first global consumer law firm Full stack AI-native legal services: we’re not only building software, we’re an AI-native law firm THE ROLE We’re looking for a Staff Python Engineer to join our AI Engineering & Infrastructure team to bring our latest AI-driven features and services into production.
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