LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams.

LawVu is a fast growing New Zealand software company with customers and employees around the globe, including in New Zealand, United States, Australia and Europe. Our legal workspace is a category creating software platform that is designed specifically for in-house legal teams. We’re backed by leading venture capital firms, including Insight Partners and Airtree Ventures.

LawVu’s Product & Engineering team is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, who takes pride in crafting clean, robust, readable code and is interested in working with a team of highly skilled and experienced software engineers working on cutting-edge legal technology.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at LawVu you’ll be expected to tackle change head on. Exciting software problems will keep you up at night and finding solutions for the seemingly impossible will be the ultimate reward. You’ll have a drive to expand your knowledge, the humility to laugh at mistakes made (after the appropriate amount of time has passed) and the desire to share learnings with others for the betterment of the whole team.

In this role you will work within the Workspace Intelligence team to elevate our AI and Search offerings to meet the demands of a rapidly growing market.

What you’ll do…

• Be awesome
• Design and build simple, scalable solution
• Contribute to system architecture design and implementation
• Maintain and improve strict security requirements for a multi-tenant environment
• Guide and mentor junior engineers
• Expand and improve automated testing frameworks
• Innovate / Explore AI as the industry matures and technologies are rolled out

What you’ll need…

• A passion for software development with 5+ years experience using C# .NET Framework / .NET Core
• Strong experience in REST API design
• Experience with Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and Search solutions
• OOD + SOLID design principles
• Good understanding of Azure PaaS
• Knowledge and experience using Azure Web App services + Azure SQL
• Comfort working in an Agile development environment
• Excellent communications skills, both written and oral
• Billiard skills are beneficial

What sets us apart:

• Monthly wellness allowance to use on whatever enables you to bring your whole self to work – gym membership, massage, childcare.. the list goes on!
• Health insurance cover
• Extended paid parental leave
• Extra paid day off on your birthday
• Share options so you can have a piece of the pie
• Home office allowance set up for remote employees

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

Inspire and Delight

We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.

Move Swiftly

We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.

Dig Deeper

No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge

Take Ownership

With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of it’s impact on our business.

Back yourself. Back others

We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.

Bring your Woo

Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique.  We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.

We are constantly working towards making LawVu one of the best places to work, for everyone. LawVu is committed to providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion. We will ensure this by fostering a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves, are able to do the best work of their lives and fulfil their potential. We believe by bringing together our diversity of thoughts and backgrounds, we will develop a world class product for the equally diverse customers we serve.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you would like to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.