Head of Product Engineering

Job description

ABOUT LAWHIVE We’re combining AI with human lawyers to build the world’s biggest AI-native consumer law firm and make legal services 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 https://labs.lawhive.co.uk/ 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 early 2026, 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. ENGINEERING AT LAWHIVE We are a team of 40 engineers and researchers, responsible for architecting, building and running Lawhive’s platform, already relied upon by hundreds of legal professionals every day in the UK, US, and beyond. There are lots of problems we have yet to solve, and plenty we’re not aware of yet! In the next 12 months, we’re focused on: - Full stack AI-native legal services: we’re not only building software, we’re an AI-native law firm - Building modularity, legal flexibility and country independence into the heart of our platform. We’ve recently expanded to the US and are building the world’s first global consumer law firm - Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions. We’re not satisfied with “chat” as a default and are inventing a new paradigm for human/machine interaction 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 THE ROLE As Head of Product Engineering, you’ll shape, lead and evolve our entire engineering department, reporting directly into our CTO, Jaime https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-van-oers/. You’ll be the driving force in building the next evolution of Lawhive’s platform - making a difference to our customers and propelling Lawhive to the next step-change in growth. On a daily basis you’ll be working across Engineering and alongside our designers, product managers, AI researchers, lawyers, and the wider engineering group. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Be right-hand person to our CTO, supporting on technical strategy and architecture - Lead and mentor the engineering team, driving a high-performance, delivery-focused culture - Be an exceptional technical leader and architect of a complex international product - Lead on hiring - continuously level up the team through new exceptional talent - Keep the engineering machine running smoothly - set the structure, ways of working and quality standards in your image - Form exceptionally strong cross-functional partnerships with Product, Design, AI, Customer and Sales teams and operate as one unit and drive strong communication standards - Be a key member of Lawhive SLT and help set the future business strategy as we scale globally - Have a player/coach mindset and know when to get your hands dirty - the right person for this role won’t be afraid of getting into the code - Formalise delivery management and evolve our performance development processes - Encourage innovation - drive a product-minded culture and lead the way on leveraging AI to effectively scale output - Ensure our products evolve quickly and safely with the best development, security and testing practices INTERVIEW PROCESS - Introductory call with our Talent team - 1:1 with CTO - Technical interview with CTO and technical leads - 1:1 with CEO - Values Interview - We offer! UK Benefits: - 💰 Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups - ✈️ 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and an extra day for your birthday, moving day and wedding day, with the opportunity to earn up to 5 more days with tenure! - 🩺 Private Medical Insurance via Bupa (including subsidised gym membership) - 🚲 Cycle to work scheme - 🍼 Nursery benefits - 💰 Pension contribution via Nest - 🌍 Work from anywhere for a month - 💻 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, and as we scale, we’ll only ever increase the focus we apply to this.