Backend Engineer

January 19, 2021

The Role

Lawyaw is a vertical SaaS platform focused on enabling the digitization of legal services. Our platform solves a foundational gap in the market by making it easy to incorporate programmable documents into digital workflows. As a result we are transforming the $150B consumer legal services market by making access to legal services faster, cheaper and more convenient. We are currently power over 1,000 law firms and growing quickly, but have so much more to build!


As a backend engineer at Lawyaw you will tasked with solving our customers biggest problems by collaborating with fellow engineers, designers and stakeholders to design technical solutions and own implementation. We're looking for people with a strong background and passion for building successful backend systems, services and APIs that deliver impactful product values to our customers. You are comfortable in dealing with changes. You love to take initiatives, and have a bias towards action.

You will

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems.
  • Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve technical and product problems.
  • Build and launch new capabilities and products that bring significant value to our internal and external users.
  • Uphold our high engineering and product standards, and elevate quality and engineering efficiency to the shared codebases and processes.

We're looking for someone who has

  • 5+ years of industry experience shipping production backend code.
  • Proven ability to lead project initiatives from ideation to completion including rollout, documentation, monitoring and analytics.
  • The ability to work in a fast paced, high growth environment.
  • A strong foundation in software and systems architecture.

Qualifications

About Lawyaw

Founded in 2016, Lawyaw provides the market-leading solution for cloud-based legal document automation, which helps law firms save time, increase profitability, and reduce errors. The company is an alumnus of Y-Combinator (W18), and is on the verge of a period of rapid growth thanks to increasing adoption of remote technologies since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as strong product market fit and excellent customer satisfaction (NPS>50). www.lawyaw.com

Apply for this position

If you would be a great candidate for this position, please send resume and professional references to jobs@lawyaw.com

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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