LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams. 

LawVu is a fast growing New Zealand software company with customers and employees around the globe, including in New Zealand, United States, Australia and Europe. Our legal workspace is a category creating software platform that is designed specifically for in-house legal teams. We’re backed by leading venture capital firms, including Insight Partners and Airtree Ventures. 

As a LawVu Tech Lead you will occupy a pivotal position between hands-on development and strategic leadership.  

Unlike a standard developer, our Tech Lead role represents a multifaceted position requiring a blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and strategic thinking. Beyond writing code, a LawVu Tech Lead guides teams, shapes technical direction, and ensures products meet the unique demands of our global B2B SaaS markets. 

What you’ll do…

• Lead by Example: Drive the design and implementation of scalable, efficient back-end systems tailored for AI applications, while actively contributing code. 

• Technical Architecture: Define and oversee the technical architecture and system design, ensuring alignment with AI integration and best practices. 

• Engineering Excellence: Foster a culture of engineering excellence, mentoring and coaching team members to achieve their full potential and instilling best practices across the team. 

• Security & Compliance: Maintain and improve strict security protocols for our multi-tenant environment, ensuring data integrity and compliance. 

• Collaborate: Work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and engineering leadership to develop and execute product and engineering roadmaps. 

• Innovate: Stay abreast of advancements in AI technologies, specifically in areas such as Retrieval Augmented Generation, Evaluations, Vector Databases and Search, to inform product development. 

• Product Discovery: Engage with product teams and customers during product discovery phases to ensure alignment with market needs. 

• Facilitate: Communicate between cross-functional teams, resolving blockers and promoting a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. 

What you’ll need…

• Product Engineering mindset: 

• Self-Starter: Take initiative and drive projects forward with minimal supervision. 

• Proactive: Anticipate challenges and address them before they become problems. 

• Problem Solver: Tackle complex issues with creativity and determination. 

• Resilient: Bounce back from setbacks and keep pushing forward. 

• Customer-Centric: Always keep the end-user in mind and strive to meet their needs. 

• Design-First: Prioritise design and usability in every feature you develop. 

• Value-Driven: Focus on delivering features that provide real value to our users. 

• Innovation: Leverage AI and cutting-edge technologies to continually enhance our products, streamline processes, and deliver exceptional user experiences. 

• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and inspire team members toward shared objectives. 

• Full Stack Software Engineer with the following expertise: 

• Engineering Experience:  

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems.  

• Strong proficiency in C# .NET Framework / .NET Core, and REST API design and development.  

• Solid understanding of Azure PaaS and Azure Web App services.  

• Experience with GitHub. 

• AI Experience:  

• At least 2 or more real-world experiences in: 

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation  

• Evaluations 

• Azure Content Understanding 

• Semantic Kernel 

• MS Agent Framework 

• Experience integrating and deploying AI models and AI services in Cloud infrastructure. 

• Experience designing, conducting, and analysing experiments to validate hypotheses and optimize product features. 

• Architectural Knowledge: Deep understanding of various system architecture paradigms and the ability to pragmatically apply them to real-world scenarios. 

• Agile Methodologies: Comfortable working in an Agile development environment, with a strong focus on iterative development and continuous improvement. 

• Leadership: Experience navigating complex problems both from a technical perspective, but product and people development as well. 

Location

The preferred location is Tauranga or Wellington, but other New Zealand locations will be considered for the right person.  

What sets us apart:

• Monthly wellness allowance to use on whatever enables you to bring your whole self to work - gym membership, massage, childcare.. the list goes on!
• Health insurance cover 
• Extended paid parental leave
• Extra paid day off on your birthday
• Share options so you can have a piece of the pie
• Home office allowance set up for remote employees

Reports to

This role reports to the Director of Engineering.  

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development. 

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

Inspire and Delight

We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.

Move Swiftly

We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.

Dig Deeper

No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge

Take Ownership

With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of it's impact on our business.

Back yourself. Back others

We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.

Bring your Woo

Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique.  We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.

We are constantly working towards making LawVu one of the best places to work, for everyone. LawVu is committed to providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion. We will ensure this by fostering a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves, are able to do the best work of their lives and fulfil their potential. We believe by bringing together our diversity of thoughts and backgrounds, we will develop a world class product for the equally diverse customers we serve.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you would like to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.