Engineering Lead (remote) - Remote Eligible

BRYTER

BRYTER is the leading AI and no-code automation platform for law firms and in-house legal teams. By combining the power of AI with the precision of workflows, BRYTER WORKFLOW AUTOMATION and BEAMON AI improve productivity and make services accessible to clients and their organizations.

With Workflow Automation platform, legal teams automate workflows encompassing intake, document automation, approvals and much more. With BEAMON AI, teams use its research, draft, compare, summarize, extract and review capabilities to automate everything from due diligence risk assessments and contract repapering to infosec questionnaires.

Top law firms such as Paul Hastings, Ashurst and Linklaters, as well as legal departments from global brands like ING Bank and McDonald's use BRYTER every day to improve efficiencies and scale their services.

As a remote-first company, we foster a culture rooted in trust, autonomy, and collaboration. We believe in empowering individuals through self-leadership, ensuring that each team member has the freedom and support to focus on what truly matters. Our goal is to create an environment where efficiency is key, and impactful contributions are celebrated. One of our values is to make the implicit explicit so please read through our Ai Use Policy for Candidates before applying.

The Product

Our platform is built with TypeScript, running on a Kotlin backend with PostgreSQL, and a Vue frontend for a seamless, responsive user experience. With robust infrastructure managed via Kubernetes on AWS, we ensure scalability and reliability as we expand our no-code and AI-driven automation solutions globally.

From day one, you'll have the opportunity to push production code and make a tangible impact. We trust in your abilities and give you the autonomy to contribute right away, ensuring your work matters from the start. By joining BRYTER, you'll become an integral part of a high-performing team where efficiency, focus, and making a difference are central to everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Vision: Shape and evolve BRYTER's technical strategy and system architecture. Ensure there is a clear, compelling technical vision and continuously refine it through feedback and collaborative conversations.
• People Leadership: 3+ years, lead a team of engineers by setting direction, aligning priorities, and fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and collaboration. Provide clarity in times of ambiguity and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
• Growth & Development: Support the personal and professional growth of team members through mentoring, coaching, and continuous feedback. Build career paths, nurture emerging leaders, and help engineers realize their potential.
• System-wide Impact: Drive technical investments that balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, performance, and maintainability. Understand the needs of different teams and reconcile global optimizations with local priorities.
• Architectural Leadership: Act as a key leader in the architecture of our systems, ensuring coherence across services, frontend, and backend. Spot impediments and challenges that hold us back from making the right long-term decisions, and champion change where necessary.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Work across multiple teams and functions, aligning efforts, unblocking dependencies, and bringing wider industry and domain context into engineering discussions.
• Influence & Advocacy: Serve as a champion and influencer, challenging the status quo when it benefits long-term success. Communicate your vision effectively and bring others along on the journey.
• Hands-on Contribution: Stay close to the code and product by contributing where appropriate, ensuring connection with the day-to-day realities of engineering while empowering your team to own delivery.

At BRYTER, we are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where different perspectives and experiences are valued. We encourage applications from people of color, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those from other historically underrepresented groups. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often hesitate to apply unless they meet every single qualification. At BRYTER, we believe in potential and are looking for people who can grow with us, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. Your unique skills and perspective may be exactly what we need!

Qualifications

• Technical Expertise: Strong experience building and maintaining modern web applications across frontend and backend.
• Leadership Experience: Proven track record leading engineering teams, managing performance, and growing individuals through mentoring and coaching.
• Architectural Leadership: Proven experience designing and evolving system architecture for complex, distributed applications at scale.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to identify and champion key technical investments that balance immediate product needs with long-term scalability and quality.
• Influence & Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to inspire, align, and bring others along with a technical vision.
• Mentorship & Coaching: Experience mentoring senior engineers and contributing to a culture of learning, trust, and technical excellence.
• Pragmatic Decision-Making: Skilled at reconciling competing needs between teams and avoiding over-engineering while ensuring long-term success.

Bonus Points for:

• Experience in startup environments, with the flexibility to shift priorities and pivot direction when necessary.
• Familiarity with cloud services, particularly AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Ideally experience with our stack in at least one area TypeScript/Vue/React, Kotlin/Spring, PostgreSQL, or cloud infrastructure.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Packages: We offer highly competitive salary packages that reflect your skills, experience, and the impact you'll have on our team.
• Flexibility: As a remote-first company, we provide a high level of flexibility, allowing you to work from where you feel most productive within Europe & UK.
• Team Off-sites: We regularly organize team off-sites at exciting destinations across Europe, where we come together to collaborate, bond, and have fun.
• Learning & Growth: You will have the opportunity to learn and grow every day, especially in AI-driven technologies, as we push the boundaries of what's possible in automation.