Back-end Engineer (Payroll / Freelance)

Are you a seasoned & ambitious Back-end Engineer? Eager to join the AI revolution? We would love to hear from you. 🚀

Join LegalFly!

LegalFly is a pioneering legal AI platform offering unmatched security and productivity that is transforming the legal industry:

🏆 Exceptional product-market fit: Our advanced and intuitive legal AI solutions have rapidly gained traction in the market. LegalFly is trusted by leading European enterprises and law firms, and we have strategic partnerships with industry leaders like Slaughter & May and Allianz.

🚀 Hyper-growth: Following our successful Series A funding round of 15 million EUR in July 2024, LegalFly is experiencing rapid growth. Backed by top investors, including Mehdi Ghissassi, Director of Product at Google Deepmind, we plan to triple our team by the end of the year to accelerate product development and revenue growth.

🥇 World-class team: LegalFly was founded by four tech veterans from Tinder, bringing extensive knowledge and expertise to drive innovation.

🔒 Unmatched security: We are setting the global standard for responsible legal AI with unrivaled security measures. LegalFly ensures that sensitive client data never leaves the company's premises through on-premise anonymization.

🌎 Global expansion: Our recent funding will support our expansion across the globe. We are extending our platform to key jurisdictions, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, and Belgium, driving the digital transformation of legal services globally.

Join us at LegalFly as our new Back-end Engineer and be a part of our mission to revolutionize the legal industry with cutting-edge AI technology.

Key responsibilities & what your day will look like:

• Lead the development of a secure AI workspace focused on data protection and privacy, setting a new standard for legal tech.
• Build and maintain scalable backend systems that solve real-world legal and business problems, helping to modernize the legal industry.
• Maintain APIs for various client applications, ensuring smooth communication with Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Optimize our systems to improve the performance of LLM input and output.
• Keep our databases organized and running efficiently to support seamless operations.
• Work with cutting-edge AI technologies like machine learning and vector databases to create tools that will shape the future of legal services.

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have expert-level skills in back-end development using NodeJS and Typescript

• Are fluent in English and preferably Dutch

• Big plus if you have experimented with AI, vector databases, and/or machine learning

• You thrive in the atmosphere of a fast-growing scale-up

• You're cooperative as well as able to work independently

• You have strong problem-solving skills and unwavering attention to detail

Your direct manager and team

You will join the engineering team led by CTO & Co-Founder Kasper Verbeeck and Engineering Manager Olivier Deknop. Your teams consists of 5 amazing Senior Engineers, coming from Match Group, Tinder and In The Pocket. 

Our offer 

🌟 A position with impact: Join a fast-growing tech scale-up with an innovative culture and tremendous market opportunity.

💰 A fully optimized & competitive salary package on the payroll, or a competitive freelance fee. 

🚗 Company car & fuel card: Tesla Model 3 or hybrid equivalent (payroll only). 

 💻 Top-class equipment to thrive: Including Macbook Pro, iPhone 15 Pro, Herman Miller chair, and Widescreen 34' monitor.

🏥 Investment in your well-being: top-notch health, hospital & dental insurance and a pension plan (payroll only).

🏡 Hybrid work policy: office days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and one additional day of your choice. Remote work is possible two days a week. 

 🎉 Monthly team activities & yearly team retreat.

🏢 Stunning, light-filled office in the heart of Ghent on Veldstraat.

🍽️ Free lunch on office days.

Have we sparked your interest? Let’s get in touch & join the AI Revolution! 🚀