Senior​/Lead Frontend Engineer- AI Team

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This role can be primarily remote, with in-person meeting around once per month in Manchester or Liverpool. Fletchers have offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, Southport, Newcastle, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton, and Cambridge.

We are looking for a Senior / Lead Frontend Engineer to join our rapidly expanding AI team at Fletchers Solicitors. This role sits within a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment where we are rapidly prototyping, iterating, and deploying state-of-the-art AI products for use across Fletchers and the wider legal sector. The team operates as a start-up-style unit within the wider business, reporting directly to the executive team, with a clear mandate to move quickly from idea to production.

You will be responsible for designing and building high-quality frontend applications that expose our Machine Learning and Large Language Model-based systems to users in a clear, reliable, and intuitive way. These interfaces are central to turning complex AI capabilities into usable, valuable products. We have ambitious plans to grow the AI team significantly over the next few years as we scale our internal platforms and commercialise our technology across the legal sector.

Fletchers is a rapidly growing consumer law firm specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence, and with a growing practice in family and private client. Fletchers was one of the first consumer law firms to deploy a machine learning tool for legal work (a decision support system for screening incoming cases, launched in 2017) and was one of, or the first, law firm to have a dedicated AI department, which started in August 2023.

Since then, we have been experimenting with a broader range of ML techniques, extending those tools already in use, and product ionising new ones through our growing data science & engineering teams.

We believe that we are well positioned to leverage Fletchers’ unique legal-medical dataset and industry expertise to build AI tools that will shape the future of consumer law. We are well funded through our Private Equity backers, which allows us to invest heavily in the development of sector-specific AI tools that assist, automate, and augment our specialist legal work. Tools we have built range from simple behind-the-scenes custom model inference, to agentic-AI pipelines for ‘always on’ monitoring;,

to the core user interface that some of our colleagues work on for 90%+ of their day. We’re also commercialising these tools so that other specialist law firms can leverage Fletchers legal and AI expertise, and have an ambitious agenda for external growth for the next 18 months.

Fletchers is headquartered in the North-West of the UK, with offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Southport, Bolton, Cambridge, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton, and Newcastle. Many colleagues work primarily from home. The existing AI team is distributed across London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, and Bristol, and we typically meet in person once or twice per month in Manchester.

As a Senior / Lead Frontend Engineer within the AI team, you will take ownership of the technical design and implementation of our frontend applications, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and well-aligned with product and user needs. You will work closely with backend engineers, data scientists, and product stakeholders to translate emerging AI capabilities into polished, production-ready user experiences.

This role is suited to an experienced frontend engineer who is comfortable operating with a high degree of independence, setting technical direction where appropriate, and making pragmatic trade-offs in a fast-moving environment. The role will include technical leadership responsibilities, such as shaping frontend architecture, mentoring other engineers, and establishing best practices across the team.

That said, given we are growing across the team and will continue to do so for the next 6-12 months, we also want to hire based on potential. If you are less experienced but can demonstrate the capability and a strong trajectory, we encourage you…