Software Engineer, Orbital

About the Role

We're looking to speak to frontend heavy, senior fullstack engineers, as we've launched the industry’s first legal AI Agent and have seen phenomenal growth in both revenue and usage in the last 18 months. [Employer hidden] Copilot is a new product which is delivering much needed automation in Real Estate transactions across the country and internationally, with a view to transforming the way property is transacted. We have a successful existing product which helps real estate professionals extract key information & create reports from legal documents. We’re evolving this product to add further value to our user base. With the recent release of many Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT-5 and o3, we’ve continued to adopt bleeding edge frontier models. This is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about learning how to utilise this in production use cases.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end design and development of key features of our web application along with the underlying services that support it.
• Join a small, dynamic and fast-paced team with a focus on quality, usability and impact.
• Be involved in every stage of the development lifecycle; from discovery and design, through implementation to deployment, maintenance and continuous improvement.
• Be supported by a cross-functional, collaborative and growing team in delivering an impactful product, initially to lawyers and then to a wider set of B2B customers.
• Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans.
• Influence how we structure our frontend architecture to optimise for scale, speed of iteration and quality.
• Shape product direction and influence beyond the technical implementation into how we go about solving real customer pain.
• Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, legal domain experts, AI engineers and software engineers) to ideate, experiment, prototype and ship your (and the teams ideas) into the hands of the customer.
• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase.
• Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market.
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications.
• Security is everyone’s responsibility at [Employer hidden]. We ask all team members to follow our security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards.
• Spot something unusual? Reporting risks or incidents quickly helps us maintain the strong culture of security and compliance we all depend on.

Who you are

• Have a strong background in frontend development - ideally React, TypeScript and/or Next.js.
• Care about solving the technically challenging problems we’re tackling for our customers.
• Value shipping early and often to get customer feedback and then iterating quickly to improve the product.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Have a proven track record of building user-facing products and have the ability to put yourself in the shoes of the customer.
• Have proven experience delivering large, complex software engineering systems.

Desirable

• Have experience with Backend development - ideally Python.
• Experience working with LLM’s and OpenAI's API in particular.
• Have worked as a Product Engineer or worn a product hat in the past.
• Have worked in small, fast paced environments with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
• Proven experience of driving and using modern dev practices like BDD, TDD, 12 Factor, CI/CD.

Company Benefits

• Matched pension contributions and equity options.
• Flexible working hours and location; access to 30+ Boutique Workplace offices in the UK.
• 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays).
• Professional equipment and a £1,000 p/a personal learning and development budget.
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• All-company off-sites, Deliveroo Wednesdays and team socials.
• Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest.
• Extra day annual leave when you move house.

About [Employer hidden]

Legal reasoning requires smart and experienced law professionals, and collating information and data takes up their valuable time. That's why [Employer hidden] has used foundational AI models to build an assistant for law professionals. The company builds SaaS solutions that transform how property professionals work by leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies. The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients. [Employer hidden]'s AI solutions are already used by thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals across the UK and the US. It plans to grow its presence in the US and scale its team to achieve this objective. There is a huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.

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