Tech Lead

About us

Nexl is a fast-growing LegalTech company on a mission to elevate the business of law. The company builds an AI-driven CRM and growth intelligence platform that brings a firm’s internal and external data together so lawyers, marketing teams, and business development teams can collaborate, spot opportunities, and grow revenue.

Nexl has been recognised by the Financial Times, Deloitte, and the Australian Financial Review as one of the fastest-growing companies in the region, is trusted by 150+ law firms globally, and recently closed a $23M USD Series B led by Tidemark Capital.

The Opportunity

Nexl is looking for a Tech Lead who is technically excellent, AI-first in how they build, and a strong coach who raises the people around them. This role is about guiding one of Nexl's cross-functional squads, including shaping architecture, setting the AI-first engineering standard, and helping ideas become products customers love.

You'll work closely with the Head of Engineering, CPTO, and your Product Manager, owning technical direction and delivery quality for your squad. You're accountable for how the team builds and ships, including embedding AI-first workflows that let the squad move at a pace without compromising quality.

This is a high ownership role for someone who loves building, coaching, and making decisions and who wants to be deeply embedded in how a fast-growing LegalTech company scales its engineering organisation. The right person will be equally comfortable writing code, reviewing architecture, running a difficult 1:1, and debating product trade-offs with their PM.

What You’ll Own & Do:

• Lead the technical direction of your squad, guiding architectural choices and ensuring alignment with Nexl's broader platform and engineering strategy.
• Stay in the codebase. You’ll contribute to features, review AI-generated and hand-written code, and set the quality bar through your own work.
• Set the AI-first standard for your squad. Build and share the workflows, tooling choices, and prompting approaches that let engineers ship more, at higher quality.
• Coach engineers on system design, problem-solving, and AI-native development, helping them grow into more autonomous, higher-output engineers.
• Work closely with your Product Manager to shape roadmap priorities, refine requirements, and balance technical debt with new feature delivery.
• Drive best practices in testing, CI/CD, observability, and reliability, making sure AI-generated code meets the same bar as everything else.
• Anticipate risks, remove blockers, and create clarity where ambiguity exists so the squad can move fast without going wrong.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leadership to create scalable, performant, and secure solutions.

What We're Looking For:

Must haves:

• Proven experience as a Senior Engineer or Tech Lead within a high-growth SaaS or technology company.
• AI-first in how you build. You use AI agents, agentic coding tools, and automated workflows as your primary development mode, and you lead others to do the same.
• Strong expertise in at least one major part of Nexl's stack (React/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails).
• A track record of strong architectural decision-making and navigating technical trade-offs under real delivery pressure.
• Ability to balance hands-on coding with technical leadership, mentoring, and clear communication.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and inspire engineers, raise engineering quality, and build healthy team dynamics.
• High ownership and accountability mindset, with a strong bias toward outcomes and continuous improvement.

Nice to haves:

• Experience building or scaling multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Exposure to AI/LLM-powered product development.
• Experience working in a modern squad model or product-led organisation.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, WebSockets, gRPC, or real-time systems.
• Background in LegalTech, Martech, CRM platforms, or workflow automation products.

What Success Looks Like:

• Your squad ships high quality output at a high velocity using AI-first workflows.
• Technical decisions are well-reasoned, well-documented, and aligned with the broader platform strategy.
• Engineers on the squad are improving their skills, AI-first capabilities, and ownership over time.
• Delivery is strong and sustainable, without relying on shortcuts or compromising technical health.
• You help define what engineering excellence looks like at Nexl, and others want to work in your squad.

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, Nexl would still love to hear from people who are excited by the mission and believe they would thrive in a high-growth, high-accountability environment.