About us
Nexl is the fast-growing LegalTech company on an ambitious mission to elevate the business of law.
We build an AI-driven CRM and growth intelligence platform that brings a firm’s internal and external data together so lawyers, marketing, and business development can collaborate, spot opportunities, and grow revenue.
Recognised by the Financial Times, Deloitte, and the Australian Financial Review as one of the fastest-growing businesses, Nexl is trusted by 150+ firms globally.
We’ve recently closed a $23 million USD Series B led by Tidemark Capital, accelerating our mission to transform how law firms grow by uniting lawyers, marketing, and business development into a single growth engine.
The Opportunity
We’re scaling our Product & Engineering organisation and expanding our Sydney hub, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep React expertise who wants to build, ship, and shape a global SaaS product used and loved by leading law firms around the world.
If you love being close to users and UI, this role will feel like home. While your strength is in React/TypeScript, you’ll work across the full stack to ship end-to-end features as part of a collaborative, cross-functional squad with Product & Design, and help define the patterns, architecture, and frontend quality bar as we scale.
We’re looking for someone who brings strong technical depth, product intuition, and a high level of ownership — someone who raises the bar, uses AI to accelerate their workflow, and knows how to balance autonomy with collaboration.
What You’ll Own & Do:
- Build polished, high-quality interfaces using React + TypeScript
- Ship full-stack features, contributing to backend work in Rails + Python
- Work closely with Product & Design to create simple, intuitive user experiences
- Improve frontend performance, maintainability, accessibility, and consistency
- Help evolve our frontend architecture, components, and design system
- Debug issues across the stack (starting with the UI)
- Use AI tools to move faster from coding to testing to documentation
- Mentor engineers and help lift our engineering bar
- Influence standards, patterns, and long-term frontend direction
What We're Looking For:
Must haves:
- Strong experience building React/TypeScript applications
- Comfort working full-stack, especially with Ruby on Rails
- Good instincts around UX, UI quality, and user-centred design
- Experience building and shipping in SaaS or fast-moving tech environments
- Strong debugging, testing, and performance awareness
- Ability to take ownership, operate autonomously, and drive outcomes
- Comfortable solving ambiguous or complex problems
- Strong collaboration skills with Engineering, Product, and Design
- Understanding of security best practices (auth, permissions, data protection)
- Solid grounding in performance, logging, monitoring, and tracing
- Growth mindset + drive to raise the bar
- Fluency using AI tools as part of your engineering workflow
Nice to haves:
- Experience in multi-tenant, data-heavy applications
- Experience with GraphQL, gRPC, or real-time communication protocols (WebSockets)
- Exposure to AI/LLM application development
- Experience working in cross-functional squads
- Exposure to React Native or Python
- Familiarity with Marketing Tech, CRM-like systems, or workflow automation products
- Experience in LegalTech or Professional Services tech
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code or cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure)
- Experience mentoring engineers or influencing engineering culture
- Experience in early-stage or scale-up environments
Life at Nexl
- High growth. A scaling environment with autonomy, ownership, and visible impact.
- ESOP. Employee stock options so you share in the upside.
- Tools & tech. Modern, AI-first ways of working to help you move faster and smarter, plus a work laptop.
- Birthday leave. Take a paid “Nexl Day” during the week of your birthday.
- Transparent by default. Fortnightly all-hands with strategy, metrics, wins, and learnings.
- Purposeful connection. Team offsites and meet-ups.
- Values-led culture. Guided by The Nexler Way, our values and operating principles that define who we are, how we work, and how we win together.
Our Values
- Committed to Care – We genuinely care about the work we do and the industry we do it for
- Human at the Core – Relationships and empathy guide everything we do
- Different with Purpose – We’re not afraid to stand out. We innovate boldly and deliberately
Even if you don’t tick every box, if you’re excited about our mission, we’d love to hear from you.
