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About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Matter Issues team, you’ll work across the full stack and the full product lifecycle — designing, building, and refining the systems that will power risk-aware AI inside law firms around the world. This is your chance to help build a first-of-its-kind AI system that gives lawyers something they’ve never had before: an intelligent, risk-aware legal assistant that understands what can go wrong—before they even ask.

Responsibilities

Build the next generation of legal intelligence
Develop core features and APIs for our AI risk management platform
Model, structure, and deliver risk insights that feed into AI systems via MCP
Integrate with LEAP’s AI ecosystem, including the Free Thinking Paralegal and Matter AI
Design and deliver production-quality systems
Build scalable, resilient backend services and polished frontend experiences
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction
Ensure high reliability, observability, and performance
Push the boundaries of applied AI
Prototype and refine AI-driven features that leverage LLMs effectively
Work with the constraints and strengths of generative AI in real-world systems
Help enable proactive, risk-aware behaviour inside LEAP’s AI products
Own features end-to-end — from idea to release
Collaborate closely with the Matter Issues team in a low-bureaucracy environment
Contribute to a product with real user impact from day one

Requirements

3–6 years of professional experience as a full-stack engineer
Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js
Strong understanding of APIs, backend development, and databases
Clear and thoughtful communication skills
Experience with AI/LLMs, automation workflows, or agent systems (Nice to Have)
Exposure to Legal Tech, SaaS products, or early-stage tech teams (Nice to Have)
Interest in LLM prompt engineering or applied AI reliability (Nice to Have)

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript
React
Node.js
APIs
Backend development
Databases
AI/LLMs
Automation workflows
Agent systems
Legal Tech
SaaS products
Early-stage tech teams
LLM prompt engineering
Applied AI reliability

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid
Flexible

Experience Level

3-6 years

Benefits

Additional paid wellbeing day every year
Free gym membership
Corporate dental plan
Weekly massages in the office
Catered lunch and breakfast every week
Fully stocked kitchen
On-site barista
Access to LEAP Home

About the Company

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Management Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies.
For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’.
The market-leading software we develop, and support is used by more than 71,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium-sized law firms.
Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long.
With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.
A fast-moving AI venture operating inside the world’s leading LegalTech organisation.
Working at the intersection of automation, agentic AI reasoning, and legal domain intelligence, you’ll help engineer the risk-aware legal brain that powers LEAP’s emerging agentic AI ecosystem — including the AI Free Thinking Paralegal.