Type: Full-time / Contract · Remote 
Industry: Legal Tech · SaaS 
Stack: TypeScript · NestJS · React/Next.js · PostgreSQL · Azure 

About the Project 

We're building an AI-powered operating platform for UK law firms — modernising business-critical legal practice management software that firms depend on daily. You'll join a small, senior, delivery-focused team working from a well-defined specification with clear stage gates, business rules, and acceptance criteria. The tech lead/architect sets direction; you own execution. 

This is a product that matters. It touches client onboarding, matter management, compliance workflows, and document intelligence — all in a highly regulated environment where reliability and correctness are non-negotiable. 

What You'll Be Doing: 

Backend — NestJS Microservices 

• Design, build and maintain NestJS microservices: REST APIs, event-driven workflows, workflow/rules engine, document and extraction pipelines. 
• Define service boundaries, manage API versioning, and ensure observability across services. 

Frontend — React/Next.js 

• Deliver matter dashboards, task workflow UIs, and verification/approval screens using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and MUI. 
• Translate complex legal workflows into clean, usable interfaces. 

Integrations 

• Connect AI extraction and orchestration services, identity & AML providers, document intelligence/OCR, and email/portal intake channels. 

Quality & CI/CD 

• Own quality end-to-end: unit, integration, and e2e tests (Jest/Playwright or similar), CI pipelines, and PR reviews. 
• Keep new-code coverage high — testing is a habit, not an afterthought. 

AI-First Development 

• Orchestrate agentic coding workflows using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, or Windsurf for implementation, test generation, refactoring, and review. 
• Apply engineering judgement over AI output — you're accountable for what ships. 

Required Experience:

• 4+ years full-stack TypeScript: NestJS (or equivalent Node back end at scale) and React (Next.js preferred). 
• Microservice architecture in production: service boundaries, messaging/events, API versioning, observability. 
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL or SQL Server): schema design, migrations, query performance. 
• Cloud deployment (Azure preferred): containers, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management. 
• Automated testing as a core practice — Jest, Playwright, or equivalent. 
• AI-first development workflow: daily use of AI coding tools to accelerate delivery, not just autocomplete. 

You'll Thrive Here If You:

• Are comfortable working within defined requirements and delivery boundaries, and take pride in functional equivalence over creative architecture. 
• Can orchestrate AI-assisted workflows rather than simply use AI as a code suggestion tool. 
• Prefer clear acceptance criteria and sprint-based delivery over ambiguous mandates. 
• Have modernised legacy or business-critical software before and understand what that demands. 
• Care about shipping correct, tested software in regulated domains. 

How We Work 

• Daily stand-up with the tech lead. 
• Sprint-based delivery with demo days. 
• Specification-driven tasks with explicit acceptance criteria. 
• PR review required on every merge. 
• AI-assisted but human-accountable: you own what you ship.