Backend Engineer (Feature team)

Orbital Witness Limited

Explore Orbital Witness: the AI-powered platform enabling thousands of legal and property professionals to simplify and accelerate property diligence.

We are Orbital, an AI company on a mission to automate the legal segment of every property transaction in the world. We iterate rapidly to build products that utilise the bleeding-edge of Generative AI. Products that are powered by the latest foundation LLM’s (Large Language Models) including GPT-4o. This places us at the forefront of the most advanced technological advancements of our generation.

Legal reasoning is a hard problem and requires some of the smartest and most experienced professionals to solve legal challenges for their clients. Because of this, we will continue to push ahead and use the most intelligent and the fastest foundational models to build an AI Assistant that can provide accurate, efficient, and reliable support to legal professionals in the world of real estate.

Already the trusted ally of thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals in the UK across a diverse spectrum of blue-chip firms, our innovative solutions have earned accolades from the UK’s magic circle law firms—Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Allen & Overy, Freshfields, and Slaughter & May—as well as renowned organisations like Tesla and Marks & Spencer. Now in the early stages of an international expansion, we’re continuing to expand our talented team to support our growth.

Bolstered by the support of industry giants, including some of the world’s largest real estate and insurance companies such as JLL, First American Financial, and Investec, and on the back of our recent £7.5 million Series A funding round led by Parker89, we’re on the lookout for exceptionally talented people to join us in shaping the future of property transactions under this new evolution of technological advancement.

We believe that property transactions in this century shouldn’t still rely on busy lawyers checking through documents and writing reports. We’re building an automated AI solution for property diligence to make transactions more efficient and transparent for everyone.

Our mission is to help any professional or individual involved in a property transaction to properly understand what they are getting into, from the outset, before incurring legal fees.

• Bold & Ambitious (changing an entire industry is hard!)
• Power to our People (we give exceptional people autonomy to succeed)
• Question or Commit (we welcome debate, but love reaching quick decisions)
• Eat that Frog! (we take on the hardest thing first)

We’re open to speaking to engineers with different levels of seniority from Intermediate to Senior/Principal as we’ve recently launched ‘Orbital Copilot’ – a new product which is delivering much needed automation in Real Estate transactions across the country and internationally, with a view to transforming the way property is transacted. We have a successful existing product which helps real estate professionals extract key information & create reports from legal documents. We’re evolving this product to add further value to our user base.

You’ll own the end-to-end design and development of key features of our web application along with the underlying services and infrastructure that support it. You’ll be joining a small, dynamic and fast-paced team with a focus on quality, usability and impact. You’ll be involved in every stage of the development lifecycle; from discovery and design, through implementation to deployment, maintenance and continuous improvement. You will be supported by a cross-functional, collaborative and growing team in delivering an impactful product, initially to lawyers and then to a wider set of B2B customers.

• Work on complex Backend, and Infrastructure projects
• Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans
• Develop, test, refactor, deploy, maintain and support production software
• Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, VP of AI, legal domain experts, data scientists and software engineers) to define user stories, quickly experiment and ship new features along with implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
• Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn’t yet exist in the market
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications
• Ensure compliance with security policies and ISO 27001 by protecting sensitive data and following secure coding practices to prevent breaches, injection, and unauthorized access.

Requirements

You should apply if you have:

• Proficiency in Python with proven experience building and scaling backend systems from scratch.
• Experience with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy for robust backend solutions.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Proficiency in managing and scaling applications in a cloud environment.
• Experience with k8s.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
• Ability to implement and execute automated testing for quality assurance.
• Leadership and Communication:
• Capable of mentoring junior developers and leading projects effectively.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with team members from various domains.
• Problem-Solving Skills:
• Analytical mindset to troubleshoot issues and optimise solutions.
• Innovative approach to address both business and technical challenges.
• Ability to seamlessly transition between different teams and projects as needed.

As part of our commitment to information security, all employees are expected to adhere to company security policies and procedures, participate in mandatory security awareness training, and ensure the secure handling of sensitive data in line with ISO 27001 standards. Reporting potential risks or incidents is a key part of fostering our culture of security and compliance.

• Matched pension contributions and equity options in a fast growing start-up
• Flexible working hours and location; should you choose to work from home or need a change of scenery for a few days you will have access to 40+ TOG offices in London and even more around the world
• Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
• An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials

We value diversity at Orbital Witness, and would particularly encourage applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. We’d love to hear from you even if you don’t match all of the above criteria or are seeking other opportunities that we’re not currently advertising.

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