• Our Agile best practices are alive and well with communication and collaboration across frontend and backend teams

• We are goal and risk oriented - meaning we take a risk driven development approach allowing us to talk openly about the risks of upcoming implementations

• We don’t work on legacy code. We experiment and find new ways to move forward in collaboration with the rest of the team

Your purpose in our mission

We’ve raised $17.8 million in Series A funding led by Google Ventures and joined by Khosla Ventures. They believe in our vision that the law should be accessible to everyone, and this is where your skills will improve the user onboarding to our platform by providing a better user experience.

Your manager and team

Our org structure is made up of pods with distinct areas of focus to keep us all working on the most impactful things for our customers all of the time. Some of our team members work across multiple pods. Our structure was conceived with impact, autonomy and velocity in mind and we'd love to share more with you throughout our interview process. You will be developed by your manager, Daniele - Technical Director, and your teammate in this small and adaptable Backend function is Giovanni - Lead Backend Engineer. They have a generative culture, they constantly learn, seek feedback, and experiment.

This is what you’ll be doing

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Genie AI you’ll be joining us in a dynamic stage of our growth so you’ll face lots of different challenges. You’ll start off by working on the new onboarding flow, and improve security aspects of Genie’s backend by working in the user and security permissions area. Below is what we need you to do, it’s up to you on the how:

• Five star user experience: communicating and collaborating regularly with product management (PM), frontend, and other backend engineers to provide an outstanding user experience - we don’t do silo’s here

• Working on complex problems: discovering new ways of implementing the solutions for the challenges we face at Genie. For example, managing large and complex data structures as well as sophisticated workflows

• Autonomy: you’ll use your problem solving and questioning skills to clearly define your tasks. You’ll work with PM and other team members to clarify and streamline

• Day to day: you’ll be doing code implementation, code review, system and database design

• Our tech stack: includes NodeJS, Typescript, and MongoDB

This is how we’ll set you up for success and the outcomes we expect from you

Over your first 90 days you can expect us to help point you in the right direction to set you up for success. During the interview process we can talk you through a high level overview of your 90 day plan.

By the end of your first six months we expect you to be:

• Participating in technical discussions, actively contributing to problem definition and technical solutions

• Writing clean, modular easy, easy to maintain and well-documented code relying on best practices

• Designing and implementing efficient database schemas that support current applications requirements

We’ll continually develop and measure success on the below criteria:

• Communication and collaboration (worth making sure you’re familiar with the Agile manifesto and values)

• How you work with your team and cross functionally

• Your code quality and your ability to self-manage

We are a start up in an exceptionally dynamic stage of our growth. We are a customer and employee led organisation. What this means is that we adapt to our customers' needs, and the problems we’re solving today could be very different in six months, or even by the end of this recruitment process. We also listen to our team as we empower you to have full autonomy of your role - you're the expert. You should expect to work with us on how your role develops, grows and changes throughout your time at Genie.

It can be tough here because

• Change is the only constant in this stage of our growth as we adapt to customer needs

• You’ll need to fact find to clearly define your tasks. This involves a high level of autonomy and communication cross functionally

• We have lots of great ideas and alignment is critical to decide what our priorities are

But we think you’ll love

• The way we innovate - we think of alternative ways to achieve a goal. We really experiment, time box, demo, present, and have technical discussion with other team members

• We’re goal and risk orientated - it’s a methodology that allows us to talk about the risks of upcoming implementation

• The communication and collaboration - we utilise those elements of the agile manifesto

The skills you need to succeed in this role

• We are looking for a MongoDB expert, so it is essential that you have advanced knowledge of MongoDB

• Working knowledge of NodeJS and TypeScript

• You’ll be able to give working examples of database and system design, event-driven programming, and microservice architecture

• Any hands on experience of message brokers (we use RabbitMQ)

• You’ll have worked in an Agile environment and truly embody what it means to be Agile

• We’ll want to see you land key messages throughout our interview process, show us you’re a team player, and demonstrate you’re a lifelong learner

(Don’t worry about ticking every single box on the list to be considered for this role.)

Unleash your magic: our interview process

• Step 1: Meet our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Corina, to assess your motivations and baseline technical skills

• Step 2: Technical chat with our Technical Director - Product Engineering, Dan and our Senior Backend Engineer, Gio

• Step 3: A live code challenge with Dan and Gio

• Step 4: Culture interview with our CTO and Co-Founder, Nitish, and our Frontend Engineer, Merve

We can’t wait to meet you! Bring your authentic self, and get ready to explore our culture, team events, and big mission. We're excited to discover what makes you and us unique.

Our benefits

Here’s just some of the benefits you can look forward to when you enter the Genie’s lamp:

• Generous Stock Options: We want all our genies to share in our success

• Private healthcare: To help keep you fit as a fiddle

• Fully Remote Working: Work from anywhere your heart desires

• Unlimited book budget: Dive into an unlimited budget for business, law, or technology books

• Home Office Setup: Equip your home office with the best – a top-of-the-range laptop, monitor, wireless keyboard, mouse, and a comfortable office chair. Your workspace will be as splendid as a royal palace

• Learning and Development Budget: Each Genie gets an individual £500 L&D budget annually, plus five days off for any job specific learning adventures

• Unlimited Holiday: Take as much time off as you need to recharge your batteries

• Parental Leave: Both genie parents get enhanced leave to welcome their little genies into the world

• Free access to Genie: For you to create, negotiate and collaborate on legal documents in real time on one platform!

About Genie AI

Genie AI is a machine learning startup with a mission to enable everyone to draft quality legal documents. We're shaking up the legal world and flipping the business model on its head!

Think of what GitHub did with open source code, Instagram and TikTok with entertainment, Airbnb with hospitality, and Uber with travel – Genie AI is doing that with legal contracts. We're conjuring up a community-based AI law platform that'll change the game. Join us, and let’s make some legal magic together!

• 100,000 companies use Genie AI today - we’ve been growing exponentially!

• We’re funded by the world’s top investors, with significant runway - and we’re growing the team

• We’ve collaborated with Oxford University and Imperial College London to co-author research papers on explainable AI

• According to Forbes, we're also rated one of the top 29 AI startups in the UK

• We're a Sunday Times Best Places to Work Award Winner 2024

• We’re backed by top legal pedigree, from Lord Neuberger to representing the UK on multiple Ministry of Justice trade missions

• Our customers save on average £15,000 on legal fees per year with Genie

• This isn’t just a SaaS product - we’re redefining the business model of law

Ready to grant wishes and disrupt a £750bn industry? Click apply and join us in creating a world of digital wonders!

At Genie, we’re committed to creating a diverse environment. Whilst we’re on the cutting edge of innovation, it’s all about the people. We embrace differences and hire based on merit, giving equal consideration to all applications, regardless of gender, background and race.