Staff Python Engineer

Lawhive

Staff Python Engineer developing production-ready APIs and scaling AI systems for Lawhive's innovative legal technology. Collaborating closely with AI researchers and engineering teams to enhance legal automation.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLead💰 £135,000 - £180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing production-ready APIs and services that expose AI functionality to internal and external applications.
Improving reliability & monitoring for AI-driven applications in production.
Scaling AI systems to handle real-world legal use cases (e.g., legal document analysis, case predictions, automated legal advice).
Collaborating with AI engineers to ensure smooth deployment of AI workflows and models into production.
Working with event-driven architectures and async workflows to process large-scale AI workloads efficiently.
Ensuring security & compliance in AI-driven legal services.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong Python experience in building scalable backend systems.
Familiarity with API design & distributed systems architecture.
Experience working with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, Pub/Sub, AWS Step Functions, etc.).
Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP etc).
Understanding of best practices in observability, monitoring, and debugging.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups
33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off
Work from anywhere for a month
Pension contribution via Nest
Top-spec equipment - MacBook/Windows
Regular team building activities and socials!

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonAPI designdistributed systems architectureevent-driven architecturesKafkaPub/SubAWS Step Functionscloud platformsAWSGCP

Soft Skills

collaborationreliability improvementmonitoringdebuggingscalability