lawhive - Senior Python Engineer, ML
Requirements
• Strong Python experience in building scalable backend systems. • Familiarity with API design & distributed systems architecture. • Experience working with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, Pub/Sub, AWS Step Functions, etc.). • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP etc). • Understanding of best practices in observability, monitoring, and debugging. • LLM Observability & Evaluation – familiarity with tools such as Langfuse for monitoring model generations, managing prompts, and measuring quality in production. • Comfortable optimising performance & scaling distributed AI workloads and ML Ops experience. • Hands-on work with vector databases, hybrid retrieval methods, and evaluation of retrieval quality. • Agentic & Orchestrated Systems – exposure to multi-step reasoning, agent frameworks, or orchestration tools (e.g. LangChain, AutoGen, Inngest, Temporal) where LLMs call tools, plan tasks, or coordinate workflows. • Experience working in collaboration with researchers so that new models, pipelines, or research outputs can be integrated and evolved iteratively. • Prior Experience in Legal Tech - understanding of the legal industry and experience working with legal technology solutions.
Responsibilities
• Developing production-ready APIs and services that expose AI functionality to internal and external applications. • Improving reliability & monitoring for AI-driven applications in production. • Scaling AI systems to handle real-world legal use cases (e.g., legal document analysis, case predictions, automated legal advice). • Collaborating with AI engineers to ensure smooth deployment of AI workflows and models into production. • Working with event-driven architectures and async workflows to process large-scale AI workloads efficiently. • Ensuring security & compliance in AI-driven legal services.
Benefits
• 💰 Meaningful early-stage equity at one of Europe’s fastest growing startups • ✈️ 33 days’ annual leave (25 + bank holidays) plus your birthday off • 🌍 Work from anywhere for a month • 💰 Pension contribution via Nest • 💻 Top-spec equipment - MacBook/Windows • ⛳️ 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.
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