Head of Product Engineering

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. Lawhive has 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.

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.

We are focused on:

• Full stack AI-native legal services
• Building modularity, legal flexibility and country independence into the heart of our platform
• Pushing the envelope on the user experience of lawyers’ AI interactions

Our tech stack and day-to-day tools include:

• 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

Head of Product Engineering

As Head of Product Engineering, you’ll shape, lead and evolve our entire engineering department, reporting directly into our CTO.

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 the 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 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, driving 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 best development, security and testing practices

Benefits

• Meaningful early‑stage equity
• 33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off
• Pension contribution via Nest
• Work from anywhere for a month
• Top‑spec equipment – MacBook or Windows
• Regular team building activities and socials

Diversity

At Lawhive, we know that diversity of thought is critical to delivering outlier outcomes. We work hard to ensure we build a diverse, inclusive team, and as we scale, we’ll continually increase the focus we apply to this.