Backend Engineer, Orbital
Feature Team
£80-100k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
Job no longer available
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£80-100k
+ Equity
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
- Proficiency in Python with proven experience building and scaling backend systems from scratch
- Experience with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy for robust backend solutions
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Proficiency in managing and scaling applications in a cloud environment
- Experience with k8s
- Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment
- Ability to implement and execute automated testing for quality assurance
- Capable of mentoring junior developers and leading projects effectively
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with team members from various domains
- Analytical mindset to troubleshoot issues and optimise solutions
- Innovative approach to address both business and technical challenges
- Ability to seamlessly transition between different teams and projects as needed
What the job involves
- We're open to speaking to engineers with different levels of seniority from Intermediate to Senior/Principle as we've recently launched ‘Orbital Copilot’ - a new product which is delivering much needed automation in Real Estate transactions across the country and internationally, with a view to transforming the way property is transacted
- You’ll own the end-to-end design and development of key features of our web application along with the underlying services and infrastructure that support it
- You’ll be joining a small, dynamic and fast-paced team with a focus on quality, usability and impact
- You’ll be involved in every stage of the development lifecycle; from discovery and design, through implementation to deployment, maintenance and continuous improvement
- You will be supported by a cross-functional, collaborative and growing team in delivering an impactful product, initially to lawyers and then to a wider set of B2B customers
- Work on complex Backend, and Infrastructure projects
- Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans
- Develop, test, refactor, deploy, maintain and support production software
- Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, VP of AI, legal domain experts, data scientists and software engineers) to define user stories, quickly experiment and ship new features along with implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
- Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
- Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market
- Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications
- Ensure compliance with security policies and ISO 27001 by protecting sensitive data and following secure coding practices to prevent breaches, injection, and unauthorised access
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 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$59m
SERIES B
May 2023
$10.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75.2m
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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