Summary
Seeking a Staff Fullstack Engineer for a fast-growing European legal tech company. This senior role focuses on owning and scaling complex AI product suite systems, requiring strong Python, Django, AWS, and modern frontend framework expertise. You'll drive technical initiatives and architecture improvements in a fully remote, growth-stage environment.
- Location
- Germany
- Type
- fulltime
- Level
- Senior
- Work mode
- remote
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Job Description
We’re seeking a driven Staff Fullstack Engineer to join one of the fastest-growing legal tech companies in Europe as we scale the engineering foundation across our AI product suite.
This role focuses on owning and driving complex systems across our products, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability as we continue to grow.
Working closely with Engineering leadership, you’ll operate as a senior technical leader without direct reports, taking ownership of key technical initiatives and driving execution across teams.
For an engineer with strong ownership mindset and technical leadership, this is an opportunity to take the lead on critical systems, improve architecture, and deliver high-impact results quickly.
Your Challenge and Opportunity in This Role
As a Staff Fullstack Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping up the tech and best practices of our JUPUS Application used by law firms across Europe.
You’ll take ownership of complex technical topics, drive implementation, and ensure systems are built for performance, scalability, and reliability. Expect high responsibility, fast execution, and visible impact across the product suite.
Tasks
Own and drive complex features and systems across our Application
Lead implementation of high-impact technical initiatives end-to-end
Be on the forefront of technical guidelines and code quality
Improve system architecture, performance, and scalability
Work closely with AI Engineers to bring AI systems into reliable production environments
Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frontend applications
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across application and database layers
Maintain strong testing practices including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
Collaborate across teams to drive technical decisions and execution
Implement and evangelize internally best practices, new technologies and techniques
Requirements
Technical Expertise
Strong experience building and scaling full-stack applications in production
Deep expertise in Python and Django
Experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)
Strong experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js, or similar)
Strong understanding of testing practices (unit, integration, E2E)
Technical Leadership & Ownership
Proven ability to own and drive complex technical topics independently
Strong focus on performance, scalability, and system design
Ability to make decisions and execute quickly in fast-moving environments
Proactive mindset with high ownership and low passivity
Experience improving existing systems and architecture pragmatically
Familiarity with AI-powered systems or workflows is a plus
Further Requirements
You must be located in the CET -2/+2 zone for this role
Benefits
🚀 Product Impact – Drive the systems powering our AI products
🔧 Technical Ownership – Take the lead on critical systems and initiatives without direct reports
🌱 Growth Environment – Work in a team focused on fast execution and continuous improvement
💼 Leadership Visibility – Direct collaboration with engineering leadership on key decisions
🏡 Fully Remote – Work from anywhere within the supported time zone
💻 Top Equipment – State-of-the-art MacBook and setup
🏋️ Wellbeing Perks – Urban Sports Club membership
If you want to take ownership of complex systems, drive technical direction, and deliver visible impact in a fast-moving AI environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Staff Fullstack Engineer
jupus · Germany