Technical Lead, Orbital
1-5 days a week in office
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
Posted today
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
21-100 employees
Posted today
1-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.
Role
Who you are
- Are you excited about leading the development of cutting-edge AI technologies that will transform how Real Estate transactions are conducted?
- Proven experience (3+ years) as a Technical Lead, hands-on engineering manager or similar leadership role in AI/ML, software development, or SaaS start-ups
- You have a keen interest the latest in Gen AI and LLMs, algorithms, and technologies (e.g., NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and experience with microservices, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- You have hands-on experience with Python, React, Typescript, Kubernetes
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead, inspire and motivate a team
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Start-up mindset: positive, enthusiastic, adaptable, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
What the job involves
- As a Technical Lead focused on Orbital Copilot, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our AI-driven assistant, designed to revolutionise the property due diligence process
- Your work will drive the innovation behind a product that simplifies and accelerates real estate transactions, making complex processes seamless
- You'll guide a talented team of engineers from concept to deployment, ensuring our AI platform remains at the forefront of the industry while delivering real-world impact for our users
- Lead with Impact: Support a talented team of AI engineers and software engineers, mentoring them to create groundbreaking, scalable AI-driven SaaS products that are changing the way Real Estate is transacted
- Shape the Future: Architect and design AI systems from the ground up, ensuring that they are cutting-edge, robust, and scalable to meet real-world challenges
- Own the Process: Drive the entire development lifecycle—concept to production—taking ownership of projects and the opportunity to see your ideas come to life
- Collaborate for Innovation: Work closely with diverse teams—product, AI Engineering, Product Design and Legal Engineering—to bring creative solutions to market that perfectly align with business goals
- Champion Excellence: Lead efforts to continuously enhance code quality, reliability, and development processes, driving innovation through automation, testing, and best practices
- Guide the Vision: Play a key role in managing the technical roadmap, where you'll balance immediate deliverables with strategic growth and cutting-edge technology
- Stay at the Forefront: Work with the latest frontier models including GPT-5 and Claude 3.5 across text and vision, incorporating them into our platform and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible
- Drive Real Impact: Ensure the scalability of our domain specific AI product, Orbital Copilot, contributing to solutions that not only meet but exceed industry standards
- Ensure Secure Development Practices: Oversee and enforce secure coding practices and compliance with company information security policies, standards, and ISO 27001 requirements across the development team
- As part of our commitment to information security, all employees are expected to adhere to company security policies and procedures, participate in mandatory security awareness training, and ensure the secure handling of sensitive data in line with ISO 27001 standards
- Reporting potential risks or incidents is a key part of fostering our culture of security and compliance
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Legal reasoning requires smart and experienced law professionals, and collating information and data takes up their valuable time. That's why Orbital has used foundational AI models to build an assistant for law professionals. The company builds SaaS solutions that transform how property professionals work by leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.
The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients.
Orbital's AI solutions are already used by thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals across the UK and the US. It plans to grow its presence in the US and scale its team to achieve this objective. There is a huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.
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Meet the team
7 people
Kieran Pattison, Senior Customer Success Manager
Our mission
To ensure clients love working with us and see maximum value from their investment. If our customers are successful, everyone wins.Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2023
$9.8m
SERIES A
Jul 2020
$4.4m
SEED
Total funding: $15.8m
Company benefits
- Matched pension contributions and equity options
- Flexible working hours and location; access to 30+ Boutique Workplace offices in the UK
- 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Professional equipment and a £1,000 p/a personal learning and development budget
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- All-company off-sites, Deliveroo Wednesdays and team socials
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
- Extra day annual leave when you move house
- Generous parental leave and salary sacrifice nursery fee scheme through Yellownest
Company values
- Question or Commit - Embrace debate and move forward
- Power to our People - Stubborn on vision, flexible on approach
- Bold and ambitious - Aim high, challenge the status quo
- Eat that frog! - Take on the hardest, most impactful work first
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
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Leadership
Edmond Boulle
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Prior to co-founding Orbital Witness, Ed worked with high growth startups in the UK aerospace industry. He qualified as a barrister with and holds a law degree from Oxford University.
Will Pearce
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Research Analyst - Space Team at London Economics for 4 months and Business Strategy Analyst at Satellite Applications Catapult for 2 years.
People progressing
Naomi joined as Office Manager with varied experience across ops and events. Quickly promoted to Ops Manager, then Chief of Staff, she ensures we have everything needed to reach our ambitious goals.
Aisha, ex-M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance, transitioned to sales at Tessian. At Orbital Witness since 2019, she was promoted to head of BD & CS, now CRO, driving business growth.
People breakdown
35%
65%
Female
Male
Last updated on 11 February 2025
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Orbital
Aisha Tummon (Chief Revenue Officer)
- We are proud to nurture a diverse team and inclusive, caring working environment.
- We value diversity of thought and particularly encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in tech.
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