Senior Backend Engineer

About Pandektes

The volume of legislation and case law is growing exponentially, and legal professionals are now faced with navigating more data than ever before. At Pandektes, our mission is clear: to be the go-to platform for legal research and analysis across Europe.

We empower legal professionals with precise, in-depth, and lightning-fast access to legal knowledge. Our platform simplifies legal research using artificial intelligence, intelligent search, and constantly updated legal sources.

Pandektes has raised more than €4 million and recently closed a €2.9 million seed round (Feb 2025) led by People Ventures, Interface Capital, and leading angels. Pandektes already serves over 150 customers across Denmark and Germany. Our long-term ambition is to build Europe’s largest AI-powered legal database.

How we work

We are a tight-knit team of talented software engineers, designers, and legal professionals that collaborate closely together on everything we ship.

We deploy multiple times a day, and we're strong believers in continuous integration and continuous deployment. Our customers trust us with their sensitive data, and security is always top of mind for us. We're looking for someone who shares our passion for building high-quality software and who can help us take our product to the next level.

Our hiring process consists of an initial screening call, followed up by a technical interview. As a final step, we’ll invite you in to meet our team.

What you’ll do

• Build the backend for various user-facing features and data integrations
• Help in improving our API architecture to ensure scalability, maintainability, and optimal performance while integrating cutting-edge technologies and adhering to best practices.
• Keep our platform stable so we can continue to deliver a high-level of availability to our customers
• Identifying the right problems to solve, focusing on meaningful outcomes, and using your experience to make trade-offs that have the highest impact on customers as fast as possible.
• Taking end-to-end ownership for features from start to finish - from inputting into initial design and planning all the way through to implementation, testing, and delivery.
• Scale our services so we can ingest larger volumes of data, more efficiently

What experience you’ll need to be successful

• Building production-ready applications in Typescript with NestJS.
• Experience integrating AI technologies like OpenAI and Pinecone into production systems to build innovative, data-driven solutions. Experience with vector databases, transformers, NLP and LLMs is a plus.
• Strong understanding of GraphQL and database design, including complex querying with transactions, schema management with Prisma ORM and Postgres, and implementing advanced security measures such as row-level security for fine-grained data access control.
• Passion for solving challenging problems in the legal tech space, with a focus on building transparent and user-centric platforms with React.
• Self-starter and comfortable with ambiguity when navigating product challenges, and actively input into shaping product direction. You thrive in early ideation stages, share work-in-progress (such as drafts or MVPs) to gather feedback and actively seek others input.

What we offer

• The chance to be a key player in a fast-growing startup
• A collaborative work environment where your input is valued
• An office in the heart of Copenhagen, well connected by Metro
• Flexible work: working from home when you want, where you want (we trust you)
• 25 days of holiday per year + your local public holidays
• Trips abroad for team camps. Last few times we went to 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇸🇪 Sweden, and 🇧🇪 Brussels – we'd love to see you at the next one!
• Competitive compensation and benefits along with an attractive warrant & equity (ESOP) program
• Your own company card. Spend money on what you need for work.