QA Lead

📋 Description

• • As the first QA Engineer at Lawhive Inc., you will play a foundational role in establishing a world-class quality assurance function for an AI-native legal tech platform that is redefining how law is practiced. Your work will directly impact the reliability and trustworthiness of software used daily by lawyers and clients, ensuring that cutting-edge AI-driven legal tools meet the highest standards of quality in a fast-moving, regulated environment.
• • You will own and evolve the testing infrastructure to prevent regressions in AI-first software, design and maintain comprehensive test suites and CI/CD pipelines, collaborate closely with product, engineering, and legal teams to validate features, and define quality metrics and runbooks that align with Lawhive’s mission of delivering exceptional, user-centered legal technology.
• • Lawhive is a regulated AI-native law firm backed by Google Ventures, Balderton Capital, and TQ Ventures, recently securing $60M in Series B funding at a $685M valuation to scale internationally. The company operates at the frontier of legal innovation through Lawhive Labs, uniting top engineering, design, AI, and legal talent to build the future of law from its London headquarters.
• • You will work within an engineering culture that ships daily, prioritizes deep user empathy for lawyers and clients, strives for excellence in a fast-paced environment, and embraces constant learning and experimentation—especially in applying AI pragmatically to improve real-world legal outcomes.
• • In this role, you will gain hands-on experience shaping QA strategy for non-deterministic AI systems, master modern testing practices in TypeScript and Python ecosystems, influence engineering quality standards across a high-velocity team, and contribute to the development of monitoring and reporting infrastructure alongside DevOps and platform engineers—positioning you as a key contributor to one of Europe’s fastest-growing legal tech startups.