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About the Role

We are looking for exceptional engineers to join our fast-growing team automating knowledge work for legal professionals. As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll play a central role in developing our product and have high impact and ownership over key product features. You’ll work end-to-end across the stack, contributing to both backend and frontend development in a lean, agile environment. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of legal tech by building intelligent, scalable solutions that empower professionals and transform workflows.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain product features across the stack—from backend APIs to frontend interfaces.
Collaborate closely with product and design teams to deliver intuitive, high-performing user experiences.
Ensure code quality, security, and scalability through best practices and thoughtful architecture.
Contribute to technical decision-making and help shape the engineering culture.
Explore and integrate AI tools and agents to enhance developer productivity and product capabilities.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience working within product software engineering.
Strong experience with Python, particularly FastAPI and asynchronous programming.
Familiarity with software engineering best practices and security principles.
Experience using AI coding agents like Cursor or Claude Code.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership and urgency.
Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
Accountability and commitment to high-quality outcomes.
Excellent communication in English.
German is a plus.
Solid proficiency in TypeScript; experience with Svelte is a strong plus.
Bonus: You’ve built or contributed to LLM-powered products.

Location

Berlin

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote
Permanent employment

Experience Level

Lead

Education Level

Bachelor's degree preferred in Computer Science or Software Engineering.

Benefits

26 vacation days.
1 additional day off per year for your volunteer work (Volunteer Day).
E-learning via LinkedIn.
Online language training with goFluent.
Other training and development opportunities.
Well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous.

About the Company

We are our Legal & Regulatory division where we help legal and compliance professionals enhance productivity, mitigate risk, and solve complex problems confidently.
Libra is transforming how lawyers work with an AI platform that combines deep legal reasoning with cutting-edge generative technology.
We are a vibrant Merantix AI Campus in Berlin, surrounded by a community of AI innovators.
We value collaboration, curiosity, and a bias toward action.
Wolters Kluwer is a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day.
We’re innovators with impact.
We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most.
Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.
You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion.
The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide.
Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity.
We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes.
Nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains.
We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems.
Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential.
With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes.
For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

Equal Opportunity

As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking.
We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion.
This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics.
We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, and we do not tolerate discrimination on any of these bases.