Senior Software Engineer

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About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead our engineering team. You’ll set the technical direction, make key architecture decisions, and help hire and build out the team as we grow. This is a senior role – you’ll have significant ownership over how Keith’s platform is built, deployed and secured. You Will
Design and own the architecture of Keith’s platform – the state machine, workflow engine, API layer and data model that orchestrate every transaction Own infrastructure, deployments and CI/CD – ensure the platform is reliable, scalable and fast as we grow from launch to thousands of concurrent transactions Build and maintain security practices appropriate for a regulated law firm – data encryption, access controls, audit logging, penetration testing Build and improve AI agent pipelines – document review, correspondence handling, structured data extraction Build internal tooling for conveyancers – inbox, document review, approval workflows, transaction oversight Help hire and build out the engineering team as we scale Work directly with founders and senior lawyers to automate complex legal workflows
We’ll be working quickly to get our first product to market and then iterating rapidly to ramp up automation. About You
5+ years building production software, with a strong backend emphasis Strong command of Python, TypeScript and React/Next.js Experience building and operating scalable, secure systems – you understand infrastructure, observability and deployment pipelines Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, OpenAI Agent SDK, or similar) Strong architectural judgement – you’ll be making foundational decisions about the stack, data model and system design Comfortable with security and compliance requirements – you’ve worked in regulated or security-sensitive environments Experience hiring and managing engineers Based in our London Victoria office 3 days per week, with existing legal right to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship
Why Keith
Join a small, senior founding team building one of the first AI-native regulated law firms from scratch Founding team with a proven track record – including founders of one of the UK’s fastest growing consumer brands Have real ownership and help redefine how legal work gets done Collaborate with senior lawyers and technologists to automate complex workflows at scale Work at the frontier of AI and law – move fast, experiment, and shape the product
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Location:
Greater London
Job Type:
FullTime

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