
Our mission is to empower exceptional lawyers. We’re building the world’s first truly collaborative AI for legal professionals: a workspace for boundless collaboration between lawyer ingenuity and machine intelligence. We're serving 200+ clients across the globe and are backed by Benchmark, Redpoint, Y Combinator, and other top investors.

Our mission is to empower exceptional lawyers. We’re building the world’s first truly collaborative AI for legal professionals: a workspace for boundless collaboration between lawyer ingenuity and machine intelligence. We're serving 200+ clients across the globe and are backed by Benchmark, Redpoint, Y Combinator, and other top investors.
Product: Collaborative AI workspace for lawyers focused on research, drafting, and document review
Founded: 2023 (Sweden); rebranded from Leya in Feb 2025
Funding: $150M Series C (announced Oct 30, 2025); reported valuation $1.8B
Customers & expansion: Serving 200+ clients globally; launched a New York office (Mar 24, 2025)
Leadership: Co-founder & CEO Max Junestrand (Y Combinator alum); co-founders Sigge Labor (CTO) and August Erséus
Legal technology — improving legal workflows such as research, drafting, and document review.
2023
Software Development
$150M
Reported valuation $1.8B; participating investors named include ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator.
“Backed and participated in by top-tier venture investors—Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Benchmark, and Y Combinator.”
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About Us At Legora, we’re on a mission to transform the way lawyers work. Our AI-native platform lets legal professionals enhance their productivity and automate complex workflows. We collaborate closely with our clients and iterate at a market-leading pace. In a year, we have gone from an early MVP to tools used daily by thousands of lawyers, and are now scaling rapidly. We are here to win together with our team and clients, and carry the belief that life is too short not to accomplish something truly special.
You are joining an early stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit, trusted by global leaders like Bird & Bird, Pérez-Llorca, and Mannheimer Swartling. Backed by over $80M in funding from top investors including Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator. And a a world-class team from Google, Klarna, Spotify, and top tier law firms with infinite room to grow professionally.
The role
As an at Legora, you’ll lead by example—hands-on in the code while guiding a talented team of engineers. You’ll architect and deliver features that make legal professionals’ lives easier, drive technical excellence, and help shape a product used by forward-thinking law firms around the world. This is a role for someone who loves to build, mentor, and scale both people and systems.
What You Will Be Doing
Who you are
A seasoned fullstack or backend engineer with leadership experience
Comfortable being hands-on while also setting technical direction
Skilled in building scalable products and owning complex systems end-to-end
Strong communicator who leads with empathy and clarity
Passionate about mentoring others and helping teams grow
Confident working across backend, frontend, and infrastructure
Curious, pragmatic, and always looking for smarter ways to build and deliver
But most importantly, you are someone who
“Gets stuff done” and understands building a $10bn company isn’t always glamorous and takes hard work and long hours
Proactively and independently solves the most burning problems
strives in a fast-paced environment where the answers aren’t always clear and processes are few
What's in it for you
We founded Legora to empower lawyers with the tools they truly deserve. We’re not building for the way law is practiced today - we’re reimagining how it will be practiced tomorrow.