Senior Backend Engineer

About Robin AI

Robin AI is on a mission to rebuild the legal industry — starting with making contracts simple for everyone. We are a pioneer in Legal AI, built on proprietary models, licensed data, and deep partnerships with Anthropic and AWS. Since 2019, we’ve expanded our footprint to 3 continents and have been supporting many of the world’s most successful businesses, including GE, Pfizer, KPMG, and UBS.

About the role

At Robin AI, we bring together amazing people in engineering, AI and the law to create groundbreaking products that are transforming legal teams. Our current product blends traditional engineering, neural networks and LLMs to read and comprehend written contracts, assess whether they adhere to our customers’ preferred positions and automatically amends them. But our ambitions go way beyond reviewing contracts; we want to build technology that changes the way people and companies all over the world engage with legal services.

You will help us build software that allows our customers to create contracts from a library of templates; quickly review and edit contracts sent to them by counterparties; and ask critical questions about the contracts they already have. #LI-BD1

Our tech stack

Our frontend is built using React and Apollo, and we use Python web frameworks, such as Django and Flask, to implement our back-end services, alongside various other services and libraries such as Celery and Elasticsearch. Everything runs on AWS services, including but not limited to ECS, Lambda and SQS. We use CircleCI to build and deploy, and all of our infrastructure is managed using Terraform.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the backend development in a product-focused squad. Be a part of key design and implementation decisions, writing high-quality, well-tested code that solves challenging problems.

• Work closely with other teams and people, such as Product Managers and ML Research Engineers to deliver great products.

• Understand the “why” of what you’re building to create great experiences for users.

• Mentor and coach junior engineers in the squad, ensuring best practices are being followed.

• Develop back-end services and GraphQL API’s using Django, Flask and similar Python frameworks.

Preferred qualifications

• You enjoy working throughout the backend, and have experience with web-based languages (Python, Go, Node.js) and associated frameworks (e.g. Django, Flask)

• Have an in-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)

What’s in it for you

• Salary: £85,000-£110,000

• Hybrid schedule: We offer a flexible working schedule. #LI-HYBRID

• Equity package: Generous equity scheme - everyone gets to be an owner of Robin AI!

• Annual leave: 25 days PTO, in addition to the bank holidays observed in the UK.

• Health and wellbeing: Comprehensive health insurance, mental healthcare, gym discounts and cycle to work scheme.

• Growth opportunities: We prioritise promotions for high performers and help you to progress your career.

What’s it like working at Robin AI?

We’re building a place where Robins thrive. We built the company on a unique blend of inclusivity, high performance, and an unwavering ambition to transform law. Our culture and values attract deeply committed, compassionate, and straight-talking individuals who find energy in our mission.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Robin AI

Robin AI is one of the most diverse tech startups in Europe with 38% of staff from ethnic minority backgrounds, and 51% of roles held by women. In 2023, we were recognised in the People’s Platform Award for our exceptional workplace culture where employees feel valued, engaged, and empowered.