We’re looking for an exceptional systems thinker who believes AI has fundamentally changed how software should be built.

We are building an AI-first engineering organisation where engineers increasingly design systems, orchestrate agents and build the tools that build the features, rather than writing most code by hand.

This isn't about being good at Cursor or Claude Code.

We’re looking for a deeply experienced, hands-on engineer who has fundamentally redesigned the way they build because of AI: someone who thinks from first principles, designs excellent systems, creates their own agents and tooling, and can take an ambiguous problem from zero → architecture → build → production.

You’ll help us move faster, but more importantly, you'll increase the capability of the engineering team.

You won't simply execute our roadmap.

We expect you to challenge it.

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 come in.

We're hiring this person because we need another exceptional technical IC who can help us increase engineering velocity while challenging how and what we build.

The core problem we're tackling is AI Agentic Workflows.

We're looking for someone who:

• Is an exceptional systems thinker

• Solves difficult problems from first principles

• Designs excellent technical systems before reaching for implementation

• Uses AI creatively to multiply their own and the team's productivity

• Builds agents, subagents, tooling and automation, not simply uses them

• Thinks in backcasting: starting from the desired outcome and working backwards

• Has a strong cut strategy: simplifying architecture and identifying the shortest sensible route to an outcome

• Moves with urgency and cares deeply about momentum

• Is an exceptional hands-on IC who can own work end-to-end

• Challenges assumptions and proactively identifies opportunities that aren't already on the roadmap

• Can explain highly complicated technical ideas in remarkably simple language

• Is curious, open-minded and constantly experimenting

This is a capability hire, not a capacity hire. We're looking for someone who raises the technical bar of the team.

This is what you’ll be doing

Your purpose is to increase Genie's engineering capability and speed through exceptional systems thinking and agentic leverage.

You won't just ship features.

You'll shape how we build products in the age of AI.

Design exceptional systems from first principles: You'll own technical design for complex problems, identifying technical risks, designing happy paths and edge cases, considering security, and breaking architecture into sensible milestones rather than producing huge theoretical design documents.

Build the machine that builds the feature: A conventional engineer might start by asking: “What already exists in the codebase that I can use to build this?”. We want you to also ask: “What tool could I build that would help build this for me?”. You'll create agents, subagents, software and workflows that allow AI to take on significantly more of the implementation process.

Own products end-to-end: You'll take ambiguous problems from: problem → discovery → technical design → architecture → implementation → verification → production. We care much less about whether you call yourself a frontend or backend engineer than whether you can understand the whole system and design it exceptionally well.

Orchestrate AI, don't just use it: You'll design, build and maintain agentic workflows that create genuine engineering leverage.

Create 10x team leverage: The goal isn't simply to make yourself faster. You'll build systems and tools that increase the output of the people around you too. sharing knowledge, improving workflows and designing for collective intelligence.

Challenge our roadmap: We don't want an engineer who waits for a PM to tell them what to build. Within 6–12 months, an exceptional person in this role will be identifying new ideas, technical opportunities and problems that the rest of us haven't even thought to put on the roadmap yet. You'll influence both engineering and product discovery.

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

We're a startup in an exceptionally dynamic stage of growth.

The problems we're solving today may look very different in six months. We'll give you context, access and support, but we expect you to create clarity rather than wait for detailed instructions.

By the end of your first month we would like you to:

• Understand Genie's engineering and product-development workflow

• Get deeply familiar with our agentic engineering approach

• Understand how we prioritise speed improvements and legal-quality improvements

• Begin contributing to our agentic tooling and workflows

By 90 days

We expect you to:

• Be fluent in our development workflow and priorities

• Independently identify when and where speed or legal-quality improvements should be made

• Own meaningful work end-to-end

• Build/improve agentic tooling and workflows

• Begin proactively contributing to product and technical direction

By 6–12 months

You'll:

• Independently design and ship sophisticated AI-native systems

• Lead technical decisions within your area

• Create significant engineering leverage through agents and tooling

• Increase the team's delivery velocity

• Proactively challenge and improve the roadmap

• Identify valuable opportunities that weren't obvious to the existing team

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

Systems & technical design quality: Can you understand complicated systems, identify the real problem and design elegant solutions from first principles?

Agentic effectiveness: Are your agents, tools and workflows genuinely multiplying output, or are you simply using AI coding assistants?

Engineering leverage: Are you building things that make the entire team more capable?

Delivery & momentum: Are valuable things getting into production significantly faster because you're here?

Product contribution: Are you identifying valuable problems and opportunities rather than simply implementing an existing roadmap?

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

• We move very fast

• Problems change quickly

• There are few precedents for this kind of engineering

• You won't always receive detailed specifications

• You'll need to create clarity from ambiguity

• We expect engineers to think about what should be built, not simply how to build it

• Our engineering practices are evolving rapidly as AI capabilities change

• You'll be expected to challenge established thinking, including ours

But we think you’ll love

• Working at a truly AI-first company

• Building in ways much of the engineering industry is only beginning to discover

• Having radical ownership and autonomy

• Working alongside ambitious, deeply curious builders

• Experimenting with new engineering practices rather than following established playbooks

• Being close to product and technical decisions

• Building systems that can fundamentally multiply engineering output

• Challenging the roadmap rather than receiving it

• Shaping how Genie builds software in the age of AI

• Helping shape the future of legal infrastructure

The skills you need to succeed in this role

We're looking for an exceptional senior hands-on IC.

But we're much more interested in evidence of engineering excellence than a collection of keywords on a CV.

Exceptional systems thinking: You can understand complex systems and design excellent solutions from first principles. You think about: Architecture, Technical risk, Security, Happy paths, Edge cases, Scale, Simplicity, Milestones, Trade-offs. You know when architecture needs sophistication, and when the best engineering decision is to cut complexity entirely.

Deeply AI-native engineering: You don't simply have "experience using AI coding tools." AI has materially changed how you engineer. You may already be: Building your own agents/subagents, Creating internal developer tooling, Building MCPs or other agent/tool interfaces, Automating parts of your development process, Orchestrating multiple agents etc.

Exceptional hands-on engineering: You are still a builder. You can personally take something from zero through architecture, implementation and into production. We don't want someone whose seniority has taken them far away from the technical work.

Strong product instinct: You don't think your responsibility ends when a ticket lands in Jira. You question assumptions, identify opportunities, understand the user/problem and contribute to what gets built, not merely how.

Outstanding communication: You can explain something technically sophisticated in language almost anyone can understand. You are open-minded enough to have your own ideas challenged and confident enough to challenge ours

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

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.

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