Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Team
Legora is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Team for a remote role open to applicants in Sweden. Level rates it ; you can apply on Legora.
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- Level rates this software engineer role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting lists this role as remote.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Node.js, Postgres and Elasticsearch.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 304 other open roles at Legora.
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Architect and implement backend features for an AI-powered legal tech platform.
About Us
Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.
Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.
2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.
We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.
Joining Legora means three things.
We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
We grow together: as a team and with our customers.
Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.
If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.
The role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Legora, you’ll build and ship products that transform how legal professionals work. You’ll have ownership across the full tech stack, from shaping technical direction to delivering high-quality experiences used by legal teams around the world. With plenty of autonomy, you’ll tackle meaningful problems, collaborate closely across teams, and have a real impact on both the product and the engineering culture.
What you will be doing:
Architect and implement features for our web platform
Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development
Work with technologies such as Node.js, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
Review code and mentor junior colleagues to support them in their development, making the team even better!
Drive continuous improvement and challenge us, the industry and yourself
You’ll travel regularly to Stockholm for onboarding, collaboration, and major product milestones — working shoulder-to-shoulder with the team when it matters most.
Who you are
A passionate engineer with several years of experience building great products using cutting-edge technologies
You feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack, with focus on backend development
You’re autonomous and take pride in the code you write
You’re a problem solver who’s not afraid to come up with creative solutions and think holistically about software architecture
Experience in infrastructure and integrations are a big plus
Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
How we rate this
Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Team at Legora rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Pay
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- $167k
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- Tell me about a project where backend development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where database was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where mentoring was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Node.js in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Backend Development, Architecture, Database, Mentoring, and Node.js. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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