LawVu is transforming the legal industry by providing the world’s leading and most loved platform for in-house legal teams.
Our aim is to make the lives of in-house legal teams and their business partners more productive and fulfilling. We are well on the way with some of the world’s leading global brands and best in-house legal teams already operating on LawVu.
Growing superfast, LawVu is headquartered in sunny Tauranga, New Zealand, with teams in Australia, the USA, and Ireland. Our culture is strongly values-aligned; we look for people to bring their whole selves and join a team doing the best work of their lives. Our strong partnerships with industry leaders like Microsoft and Databricks enable us to leverage cutting-edge technologies and deliver value to our customers.
We are seeking a Technical Lead to spearhead the design and development of Spend solutions with a blend of AI. In this role, you’ll be expected to be on the tools, design for change and build robust solutions. You will lead a talented engineering team, ensuring we create scalable, high-quality systems that power our innovative platform. This role offers the opportunity to implement impactful changes in a fast-growing legal tech scale-up, making a real difference in how legal teams operate
You will work closely with the Engineering Director, Principal Engineer, Product Manager and the broader product engineering team to elevate our Spend platform and meet the demands of a rapidly growing market.
What you’ll do
- Lead by Example: Drive the design and implementation of scalable, efficient back-end systems tailored for Spend applications with a blend of AI, while actively contributing code.
- Technical Architecture: Define and oversee the technical architecture and system design, ensuring alignment with the Platform, best practices and enhancements in AI.
- Engineering Excellence: Foster a culture of engineering excellence, mentoring team members to achieve their full potential and instilling best practices across the team.
- Security & Compliance: Maintain and improve strict security protocols for our multi-tenant environment, ensuring data integrity and compliance
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and engineering leadership to develop and execute product and engineering roadmaps.
- Innovation: Stay abreast of advancements in AI technologies, specifically in areas such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) inform product development.
- Product Discovery: Engage with product teams and customers during product discovery phases to ensure alignment with market needs.
What is Spend Management
Spend management in LawVu refers to a set of tools and processes designed to help in-house legal teams track, control, and analyse the costs associated with their legal operations-both internally and with external legal service providers (LSPs) or outside counsel. This includes managing invoices, overseeing outside counsel spend (such as through RFPs and tracking work in progress), and generating comprehensive legal spend reports.
LawVu’s spend management solution is tightly integrated with its legal workspace, which also handles matters, contracts, and intake. This integration streamlines workflows, centralises data, and provides real-time visibility into legal costs, helping teams optimise budgets, reduce administrative overhead, and make data-driven decisions
What you’ll bring
- Experience: 8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems. Previous experience with financial systems is a win, with some experience on AI or machine learning applications.
- Technical Skills: Hands-on coding expertise, particularly expertise in Microsoft .NET stack. Bonus if you are passionate about AI frameworks and tools.
- Architectural Knowledge: Deep understanding of various system architecture paradigms and the ability to pragmatically apply them to real-world scenarios, especially global B2B SAAS companies.
- Agile Methodologies: Comfortable working in an agile development environment, with a strong focus on iterative development and continuous improvement.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
- People Leader: Even though the Tech Lead role is technology focused, being able to work with others, coach, guide and support the team and the broader engineering department is experience that you will bring along.
Location
The preferred location is Tauranga or Wellington, but other New Zealand locations will be considered for the right person.
People Leadership
There are no direct reports
Why LawVu?
At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
