Product Engineer

Orbital is the AI platform for real estate legal work.

Real estate shapes the world around us: our homes, our workplaces and our cultural landmarks. It’s the infrastructure that powers everyday life and is the world's largest asset class. Yet behind every single deal, real estate and legal teams work hard to navigate decades-old complexity; manually connecting documents, hidden obligations, geo-spatial context, and multiple parties into a path forward. We connect the legal and physical record, so that path is clearer than ever before. Our mission is to make real estate transactions faster, clearer, and less manual.

Here, you'll be part of changing how the deals behind the largest asset class get transacted, and will help shape the future of real estate.

A bit about us:

🚀 We’re building at the forefront of AI technology, without losing the deeply human expertise our clients depend on.

🏢 Orbital is built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise. We're purpose-built for the complexity of real estate: accelerating due diligence, drafting and negotiation, and deal coordination with legal-grade precision.

💰 We've just raised a $60m Series B, led by Brighton Park Capital, to accelerate our global expansion – $75m raised to date.

🤝 We're trusted by 5,000+ real estate professionals, spanning UK Magic Circle and US Am Law 100 firms, to household names like M&S. Leading firms like BCLP, Orrick, Goodwin, Womble Bond Dickinson and Clifford Chance rely on Orbital to remove the busywork, freeing legal and real estate teams to focus on sharp judgment, standout client service, and closing deals faster.

💡 Working at Orbital means joining a bold, ambitious team, with the trust to take ownership and make a real impact from day one.

Role Overview 🔎

We're looking to speak to frontend heavy, senior fullstack engineers, as we've launched the industry’s first legal AI Agent and have seen phenomenal growth in both revenue and usage in the last 18 months. Orbital Copilot is a new product which is delivering much needed automation in Real Estate transactions across the country and internationally, with a view to transforming the way property is transacted. We have a successful existing product which helps real estate professionals extract key information & create reports from legal documents. We’re evolving this product to add further value to our user base.

With the recent release of many Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT-5 and o3, we’ve continued to adopt bleeding edge frontier models. This is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about learning how to utilise this in production use cases.

You’ll own the end-to-end design and development of key features of our web application along with the underlying services that support it. You’ll be joining a small, dynamic and fast-paced team with a focus on quality, usability and impact. You’ll be involved in every stage of the development lifecycle; from discovery and design, through implementation to deployment, maintenance and continuous improvement. You will be supported by a cross-functional, collaborative and growing team in delivering an impactful product, initially to lawyers and then to a wider set of B2B customers.

You’ll get a chance to: 👩‍💻 👨‍💻

• Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans

• Influence how we structure our frontend architecture to optimise for scale, speed of iteration and quality

• Shape product direction and influence beyond the technical implementation into how we go about solving real customer pain

• Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, legal domain experts , AI engineers and software engineers) to ideate, experiment, prototype and ship your (and the teams ideas) into the hands of the customer

• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase

• Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market

• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications

You should apply if you: ✍️

• Have a strong background in frontend development - ideally React, TypeScript and/or Next.js

• Care about solving the technically challenging problems we’re tackling for our customers

• Value shipping early and often to get customer feedback and then iterating quickly to improve the product

• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Have a proven track record of building user-facing products and have the ability to put yourself in the shoes of the customer

• Have proven experience delivering large, complex software engineering systems

It would also be nice if you have:

• Have experience with Backend development - ideally Python

• Experience working with LLM’s and OpenAI's API in particular

• Have worked as a Product Engineer or worn a product hat in the past

• Have worked in small, fast paced environments with a high degree of ownership and autonomy

• Proven experience of driving and using modern dev practices like BDD, TDD, 12 Factor, CI/CD

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary £90,000-£110,000

• Matched pension contributions and equity options in a fast growing start-up

• Flexible working hours and location

• 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)

• Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Free lunch on Wednesdays and a Deliveroo budget if you’re working late from the office

• An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials

🔒 Security is everyone’s responsibility at Orbital. We ask all team members to follow our security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards. Spot something unusual? Reporting risks or incidents quickly helps us maintain the strong culture of security and compliance we all depend on.

💡 At Orbital, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We especially welcome applications from people who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you.

💰 This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on several factors, which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and business requirements.

Everyone who works with Orbital goes through background screening before they start. It's part of how we keep Orbital secure, for the people who work here and for the client information we're trusted with.