Senior Backend Engineer (Platform)

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THE KEY BITS

• Location: We can currently only accept applications from candidates that are located and have long-term working rights in the UK.
• Flexibility: We have office hubs in Boston (US) and London (UK) as well as no-office hubs in several European countries. We operate a choice-first work approach that lets you work fully remotely from Day One even if you're near an office hub.
• Salary: We benchmarked ca. £90-100,000 + equity at IC4 level in our progression framework for someone based in the UK.
• Interviews: 4 stages totalling around 3.5 hours over 2-3 weeks.
• Start date: As soon as you can start.
• Reporting to: Andrew Wray, Engineering Team Lead for the Platform team
• More info: The FAQ below, juro.com/careers, our handbook or ask talent@juro.com anything.

HELP US HELP THE WORLD AGREE FASTER

Juro has big ambitions: to become the go-to platform for agreeing and managing contracts globally. And we'll need help doing it.

Legal tech is on the rise, with Goldman Sachs estimating that 44% of legal tasks can be automated with generative AI. With the brand we have built and the agility of early stage we are well placed to capture this opportunity.

Help every team at Juro move faster by strengthening our platform's foundations. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform team, you'll build and maintain the core services-TypeScript, MongoDB, event pipelines-that power everything from contract search to our emerging AI features.

Why you might love it

• Own, build, and deliver end-to-end outcomes. Scope the idea, craft the code, and watch customers use it the same day.
• Ship continuously. We decrease the feedback loop and push to production as frequently as we can. One main branch, strong CI/CD, tests that let you log off with peace of mind.
• Code with an AI sidekick. We augment our workflow with Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot and other tools, speeding up routine tasks and sparking new ideas.
• Solve meaningful, complex problems. Fuzzy search at scale, real-time collaboration, and "nobody-has-a-blog-post-for-this" edge cases.
• Grow together. Daily code reviews, pair and mob programming slots, and plenty of space to learn from each other.

What you'll be building

• Shared services and data models in Node.js + TypeScript that every product team leans on.
• MongoDB schemas and migrations tuned for speed, safety, and evolving AI features.
• Internal tooling-feature flags, analytics pipelines, testing utilities-that slash cycle time for others.
• Resilient APIs and event streams that stay calm when usage spikes or models retrain.
• Continuous refactors and performance work to keep the platform trustworthy and boring (in the best way).

How we work

A democratic crew of specialists: people volunteer for tricky issues, swap responsibilities, and unblock one another fast. Decisions live in the open, debate is healthy, and credit is shared. You'll have autonomy and backup, the freedom to experiment and the safety nets to do it responsibly.

We care about building a diverse team where everyone feels they belong. That's why our perks & benefits and choice-first work approach are designed with inclusivity in mind. Read more in our diversity, inclusion & belonging hub.

WHO WE LOOK FOR

Research shows that while men apply to jobs if they meet ~60% of criteria, women and those in traditionally under-represented groups tend to apply only if they check all boxes. So if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

We look for people whose approach to work aligns with our values & behaviours. For this role, we particularly value:

• Mentoring: You use your technical know-how to patiently help others who come to you for advice.
• Caring: You take responsibility for what you build because you care, and you proactively seek/give feedback to suggest improvements
• Autonomy: You learn fast and don't require a lot of supervision to work well. When you ask questions, it's to re-confirm what you work on and then continue independently.
• Focus on results: You deliver the tasks and projects that you promise, and you don't invent new solutions if an appropriate one already exists.

On top of that, you have been part of a journey where:

• You built and maintained production systems using TypeScript and MongoDB.
• Your impact speaks louder than your tenure, though your depth aligns with what we'd call an IC4-level senior engineer (about five years as a rough guide).
• You planned and shipped features shoulder-to-shoulder with product, design, and other engineers.
• You rely on AI tools daily to code, test, and reason faster.
• Bonus: you learned these lessons in a fast-moving SaaS startup.

This job likely isn't for you if:

• You need detailed, step-by-step instructions to work at your best rather than picking things up fast and figuring out the edges yourself.
• Regular pull request discussions and team-wide democratic code debates feel exhausting instead of energising.
• Ambiguity, shifting priorities, and the "try-learn-iterate" cadence of AI-driven product work make you uncomfortable.

OUR MISSION

Juro exists to help the world agree faster by making legal contracts frictionless, collaborative and accessible.

Juro's intelligent contract automation platform is on its way to de-throning desktop tools as the paradigm for collaborating on legal documentation around the world.

We're doing that by rebuilding contracts from the ground-up around a browser-native experience, augmenting workflows with powerful AI and enabling all teams to conduct contracting jobs faster than ever before.

Read more about our vision for intelligent contract automation.

GOT MORE QUESTIONS?

Check if they're answered on:

• Our extended job description for this role: https://juro.notion.site/be-platform
• Our company handbook: https://juro.notion.site/handbook
• Our careers page: https://juro.notion.site

There, you'll find answers on topics such as career progression, inclusion & belonging, the interview process, benefits and more. Or reach talent@juro.com for anything.