About this role
You'll join a small engineering team building the leading legal AI for tax & law professionals. Your work will be in front of practitioners at Big Four firms, mid-market practices, and barristers' chambers — often within hours of shipping.
Our stack is TypeScript and Python, with a React front-end, Postgres, and a retrieval layer built on top of vector and full-text indexing across legal corpora. You'll work across the stack, but we expect strong product instincts and a bias toward shipping.
What you'll do
Own meaningful surface area within months of joining — most engineers ship a citation-engine feature inside their first 30 days
Work directly with customers to understand workflows in practice
Make architecture decisions that span retrieval, ranking, and UI
Contribute to our internal tooling for the legal research team
Help us scale from 1,000+ to 10,000+ firms over the next 24 months
What we're looking for
5+ years building production software
Strong front-end fluency (React, TypeScript) and back-end comfort (Python or similar)
Experience with information retrieval, search, or LLM-adjacent systems is a plus
Calm, considered approach to product decisions
Comfortable in a small distributed team where roles are loose
Nice to have
Legal-tech or fintech background
Previous Series A–B startup experience
Interest in or experience with legal research as a domain
ROLE DETAILS
Team
Engineering
Location
Auckland · Remote
Type
Full-time
Seniority
Senior
Region
AU / NZ
About Nylon
The leading legal AI for tax & law professionals.
Founded in 2023, Nylon is used by 1,700+ firms across AU, NZ & UK — from Big Four and Magic Circle firms to sole practitioners. We’re a small, distributed team obsessed with cited, precise legal research.
1,700+
Firms
100/wk
New clients
3
Markets
4
Countries