Staff Engineer

• Lexroom http://Lexroom.ai is building the AI platform where legal work gets done. In just over two years, we've grown from zero to €25M ARR, and today more than 20,000 legal professionals across Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and Bulgaria rely on Lexroom http://Lexroom.ai.
• We're backed by $73M from Left Lane Capital, Base10 Partners, and Eurazeo, and we're a team of around 300 builders who move fast, say things straight, and own each outcome.
• Our next goal? Become Europe's most-used legal product.

• Shape the Standard: Be part of the team setting the benchmark for legal AI in Europe.
• Work with the Best: Collaborate with exceptional colleagues in a culture that values competence, curiosity, and ambition.
• Deliver Meaningful Results: Your contribution will directly influence how legal professionals work—faster, clearer, and more efficiently.

Role

• Our engineering organization is growing and evolving into product squads supported by Product, Data, and AI Engineering layers.
• We are looking for a Staff Engineer to take architectural and technical decisions across squads, own our largest technical initiatives, and raise the engineering bar as we scale.
• You'll report to our engineering leadership, with no direct reports and real decision-making power.

Your key responsibilities

• Cross-Team Technical Initiatives: Take on large, complex initiatives that span several squads and bring them to completion with a high degree of autonomy.
• Architecture Decisions: Make and own architectural and technical calls across squads, balancing speed, quality, and long-term scalability.
• Technical Leadership Without Authority: Align squad tech leads and engineering managers on technical direction through influence, not hierarchy.
• Raising the Bar: Act as the final step of our engineering interview panels and help define what great engineering looks like at Lexroom.
• Breadth Across the Stack: Move between frontend, backend, systems, and architecture problems wherever the company needs you most.

What we're looking for

• Seniority: 8+ years in software engineering, with recent experience as a Staff, Principal, or Founding Engineer, Architect, or startup CTO.
• Systems at Scale: Hands-on experience designing and running complex, large-scale distributed systems.
• Technical Breadth: Comfort across the stack, and a track record of owning problems outside your core expertise.
• Ownership & Influence: Proven ability to drive cross-team initiatives end to end and shape decisions of teams you don't manage.
• Diverse Contexts: Experience in different tech companies, startups, scale-ups, or big tech, where you've faced real complexity.
• Language: Fluent in English; Italian is a plus.

Rewarding your contribution

• Compensation (Milan equivalent): €80,000–120,000
• Equity: meaningful equity on top, in line with the seniority of the role
• Team retreats & off-sites: dedicated time to connect, collaborate, and spark bold ideas

Benefits

• Hybrid Work: Hybrid with office presence in our Milan hub.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to ensure peace of mind.
• Meal Vouchers: Daily support to make your lunch breaks easier.
• Team Retreats & Off-sites: Dedicated time to connect, collaborate, and spark bold ideas.

We're not just building a product—we're setting a new standard for the legal world. If you're ready to contribute to something lasting and meaningful, we'd love to hear from you.