74% of people who need legal help never get it – you’ll help build the product changing that
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Be at the forefront of AI and how it’s driving the legal industry forward
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Lead a team of engineers as a hands-on tech lead with a real seat at the table
- Sydney based – flexible, hybrid role with a collaborative culture
About LawConnect
We are LawConnect, the consumer gateway to legal help. Around 74% of people who need legal help never get it – it’s hard to access, hard to find, and expensive. Our AI-powered marketplace changes that: every day, people describe their legal matter on our platform and get connected with the right law firm. We call it legal navigation, and we’re making it accessible to everyone.
The marketplace is a two-sided system: consumers on one side, law firms on the other. AI isn’t a feature here – it’s how the marketplace operates. It enriches and matches enquiries, prices dynamically, powers firm onboarding and lawyer–consumer collaboration, and makes sure we’re found and cited by AI answer engines, not just ranked by search engines.
We’re rapidly scaling and about to launch in the UK, with the US to follow. Around 50% of our team are developers and engineers, and we build AI-native: AI is the default way a system works, with people designed in where their judgment matters most.
Working alongside our Sydney-based team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things rarely stay the same for long. If you’re smart, caring, and ambitious, you’ll be in great company.
What you’ll do
Lead the engineering of the LawConnect legal marketplace: the AI-powered platform that connects everyday consumers with the right lawyer, and the growth engine that brings them there. You’ll own the technology behind how legal enquiries are raised, matched, and converted – and the funnel that turns web traffic into successful lawyer–client connections – with AI increasingly at the centre of every step. You’ll be expected to build with AI, not just around it.
To make this happen you will:
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Lead the architecture and delivery of the marketplace end to end: enquiry intake, firm matching, lawyer–consumer collaboration, and the firm-facing experience
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Own the growth funnel: AI-driven lead enrichment, practice-area matching, dynamic pricing, landing experiences, experimentation, and analytics across SEO, SEM and emerging AI answer-engine channels
- Own supply onboarding: automated outreach, AI-assisted profile creation, and data enrichment that gets firms live and winning work fast
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Build the AI harness engineering practice – evals, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop workflows – so AI features ship fast, behave reliably in production, and know when to hand off to a person
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Build scalable, secure backend services and fast, polished consumer- and firm-facing frontends on serverless-first cloud infrastructure, with infrastructure as code and CI/CD
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Treat discoverability as an engineering discipline: Core Web Vitals, structured data, crawlability, and content that search engines rank and AI answer engines cite
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Set the technical standards, processes, and operating rhythm for the team, raising the bar through code review, mentoring, and example
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Shape the team beyond the code: goal planning, strategy discussions, and performance management alongside the Director of Engineering
What you’ll bring
You’re a curious, self-driven engineer who wants to build meaningful technology with;
- 8+ years of professional full-stack experience, with a track record of driving deliveries as a hands-on tech lead
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Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js or other modern frameworks
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Strong experience in system design, database architecture, and API development
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Experience with generative AI, automation workflows, or agent-based systems
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Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and serverless architectures (such as AWS Lambda), including infrastructure as code and CI/CD
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Proven ability to lead a team while staying hands-on: code review, mentoring, unblocking others, and contributing to goal setting and performance management
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Excellent communication skills, including working directly with senior leadership
Even better if you have
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Experience two-sided marketplaces, e-commerce or high-traffic consumer platforms
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Growth engineering (SEO/SEM, web performance, A/B testing, analytics tooling such as GA4).
You are the type of person who
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Is comfortable with ambiguity
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Is curious, creative, and analytical – you like proving ideas with data
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Is driven by solving meaningful problems for real users
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Enjoys building products that shape the future of an industry
LawConnect is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential. If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.
Why join LawConnect?
- Your work matters. We solve real world problems that improve and support local, everyday law firms. So they can do their best work for the people in the communities they serve.
- Make an impact. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to be heard, to work on big & complex projects – and to make a real difference.
- Work with a group of authentic, passionate people who love what they do.
- Genuine startup energy - small team, fast decisions, real trajectory, backed by one of the largest legal software companies in the world.
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Flexible and hybrid working. We engage, share, and collaborate on ideas and workflows.
- Career and learning opportunities - we move fast and need smart people to get us where we're going. We are a scaling business and looking for people who want to grow with us.
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Have fun with us. Celebrations. Socials. Sports teams. Access to sailing and yacht events.
- We value your well-being with additional time off, gym membership and other perks.
- Fast-paced tech environment, if we don't disrupt ourselves someone else will do it!
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Access to LEAP Home - a program unique to the ATI Group to support you in buying your primary residence.
