Platform Engineer

Job Overview

Salary: £80,000 - £130,000 + share options
Location: London/Hybrid - 3 days per week on-site

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 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 December 2025, 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.

The Role

We’re hiring a Platform Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure that underpins all of Lawhive’s products. You’ll own our cloud environments, deployment pipelines, security foundations and observability, working closely with product engineers to ensure they can ship quickly and reliably. This role is hands-on and focused on creating a resilient, scalable platform as we continue to grow and evolve our systems.

What the job involves

• Deployment patterns and practices - Building and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines (GHA, AWS, ECS, K8s)


• Infrastructure and system architecture - Building and maintaining on our platform infrastructure, and contributing to system design as we scale


• Security and compliance - Executing on security and compliance roadmaps and hardening our software, systems and data security. Ensuring we have access controls, audit and compliance processes in place.


• Observability and Reliability - Owning monitoring and alerting systems to ensure we can inspect our services and respond to incidents


• Developer Experience and Cross team collaboration - Working with product engineering teams to improve our developer experience

Our Engineering Culture

• Ship daily - We’re building and releasing features fast, going from idea to production in hours rather than weeks.


• Empathise with users - Lawyers and legal clients have unique perspectives, preferences and expectations. We build products which understand them deeply.


• Strive for excellence - We’re ambitious and moving fast. The whole business is pushing to be a category defining legal tech company.


• Constantly learning and experimenting - We’re at the cutting edge of using AI to directly improve people’s lives. We take a blue-sky but pragmatic approach to how we apply new technologies.

Our tech stack and day to day tools are:

• TypeScript for the majority of our applications, frontends, and microservices


• Python for data ingestion and our AI services


• AWS for our cloud infrastructure


• Postgres for our data storage


• Terraform for defining infrastructure as code

What you'll bring

• Deep experience in DevOps, infrastructure and security at pace - You have worked in fast moving start/scale-ups that ship hourly.


• Strong release, deployment and cloud experience - You have worked extensively with CI/CD systems and modern cloud deployment patterns, Github Actions, Docker, Terraform, AWS.


• Passion about developer experience and productivity - Working with product engineers to create simple solutions to move fast regardless of the tech stack.


• Knows modern product engineering patterns and practices - Have experience working in product-centric companies and familiarity with the Typescript ecosystem, product testing practices, and solid system design fundamentals.


• Strong security mindset, experience in environments handling sensitive data and systems with strong access controls.

Interview process

Introductory call with our Talent team
1:1 with your hiring manager
Technical interview
Values interview with our CTO/Co-founder

Benefits

Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups
33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off
Pension contribution via Nest
20% off legal fees through Lawhive
Top-spec Macbook
Regular team building activities and socials!

Diversity at Lawhive

At Lawhive we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. As such, we’re always working hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team. We’re not yet where we want to be but as we scale we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.