Hybrid Software Engineer - Next-Gen Legal AI

About LEAP Risk LEAP Risk is a member of the LEAP group of companies - the leading provider of Legal Practice Management Solutions in the world. Over a 30-year period we've expanded across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand and support more than 70,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms. We owe our success to our curiosity and commitment to our guiding purpose, to 'Help lawyers who help people'. Law is largely about managing risks, such as: If I buy this house what could cause significant financial loss? If I go to court in a family law matter what could go wrong where I get less time with my kids or I get a worse financial outcome? What factors look bad for my case and what could I do to mitigate those negative factors. Understanding those risks takes a lot of experience and careful diligence. Mistakes do get made. Mitigating the risks is a lot of effort and is very labour intensive. AI is transforming the legal industry and LEAP is at the forefront of this change. LEAP Risk is building the world's first AI-powered, risk-aware legal assistant. We will be utilising our in-house expertise and the power of AI, to help lawyers assess and mitigate risks for their legal cases (Matters). Most legal work revolves around understanding and managing risk - but humans must currently detect, interpret, and explain those risks manually. LEAP Risk is changing that. Our platform identifies risks in legal matters, interprets them in context, and helps lawyers make better decisions for their clients. As part of LEAP's next-generation AI initiatives, LEAP Risk provides the risk intelligence that enables agentic AI systems to act with awareness, take initiative, and provide proactive assistance. Instead of passively responding, the AI can assess risk, flag concerns, and help lawyers navigate complexity more effectively. We've spent over a year building the foundation, with real beta clients already using the system. Now we're accelerating. The next phase is all about scale, stability, richer intelligence, and pushing the limits of what AI can safely and reliably do in legal practice. What you'll do 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. As a Software Engineer on the LEAP Risk 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. If you're excited about building practical, high-impact AI systems that support real professionals doing important work, this is the place for you! To make this happen, you will: 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. Work like a start-up, backed by an enterprise Own features end-to-end - from idea to release. Collaborate closely with the LEAP Risk team in a low-bureaucracy environment. Contribute to a product with real user impact from day one.

LEAP Legal Software is a multinational Legal Tech company that develops integrated productivity solutions for the legal profession including practice management, case management, document management, accounting, and legal publishing, as well as client and lawyer collaboration tools. LEAP has more than 800 employees in offices throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. LEAP supports the software needs of more than 25,000 law firms and has more than 10,000 firms using its flagship cloud product, LEAP.