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# Staff Product Engineer at Orbital

- **Company:** Orbital
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orbital/5c515a36-166b-48a8-9fd4-5b54f26b8b9d/application

**Skills:** TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Python, AI coding agents, Agentic systems, Machine Learning, Software Architecture

> Lead the development of key product features for an AI-driven real estate law platform, directing product strategy and managing engineering teams. You will own projects end-to-end, guide small teams, and shape the architecture of AI-assisted development tools to automate complex due diligence processes.

## Job description

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.

## What You'll Be Doing

You'll build the tools that fix how the world's largest asset class changes hands. We're moving property transactions away from manual document checks toward an automated AI solution that thinks like a real estate lawyer. You won't just execute builds - you'll use your professional judgement to direct product development and shape the foundations of our next growth phase. The opportunity is real, and you'll have genuine influence over what we create.

- Lead the development of key product features from concept to production, setting the technical direction and architecture.
- Own projects end-to-end, guiding small teams of two to four engineers to deliver reliable production systems.
- Direct AI coding agents to generate, iterate and refine production-quality software.
- Work with a stack commonly including TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL and Python, reviewing and shaping code produced by AI agents.
- Rapidly turn new ideas into customer-facing features, often within days rather than months.
- Continuously improve engineering practices by adopting AI-assisted development and modern software workflows.

The Impact You'll Have Your work will help professionals and individuals understand property transactions before they incur massive legal fees. By building for where models are going, you'll contribute to a system that handles over 1 trillion tokens and aims to accelerate legal work by 70%. You're not just solving toy problems - you're fixing a £multi-billion global market that's currently stuck in archaic processes. Your technical decisions will directly determine how we scale from processing 200,000 transactions to transforming the entire industry.

## What We're Looking For

- A deep conviction that AI will reshape industries and a desire to build at that frontier.
- Evidence of reaching a high level of excellence in a professional, academic, or personal domain.
- A generalist mindset with the willingness to work across product, design, and AI boundaries.
- Experience building modern agentic systems or reasoning through complex ML products.
- A track record of working on products generating £millions in ARR with high growth.
- Rapid career progression - such as moving from junior to senior level in under five years.
- The ability to critique AI-generated output with high standards and technical taste.

## What We Offer

- Very competitive salary range plus equity options in a Series B startup.
- Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our Farringdon office).
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and a personal development budget.
- Free lunch on Wednesdays and a Deliveroo budget for late nights in the office.
- A cycle-to-work scheme and flexible working hours.

Reasons We Might Not Be For You

- We don't have established machine learning infrastructure or a polished corporate playbook - so if you need a well-defined role with clear boundaries, you might find the ambiguity frustrating.
- The pace is intense and the standards are uncomfortably high - which won't suit someone looking for a predictable, low-intensity environment.
- We don't have a traditional career ladder or the brand recognition of a household name - so we're a better fit for those motivated by ownership rather than title or status.

🔒 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.

## About Orbital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Orbital provides an AI-powered platform that helps legal and property professionals accelerate and simplify property due diligence, risk analysis, and document review.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $44M in January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (additional office in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Will Pearce (CEO) and Ed Boulle (Chief Strategy Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Legal technology (LegalTech), Property technology (PropTech), Real Estate
- **Target customers**: B2B – law firms (including Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms like Vinson & Elkins, BCLP, Goodwin), in-house legal teams, conveyancers, surveyors, insurers, REITs, and institutional real estate operators.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Transform the legal backbone of the world’s largest asset class by bringing structure and clarity to complex real estate matters, giving professionals a complete, reliable view of risk.

## Products & Services
- **[Review](https://www.orbital.tech/)**: AI-driven document analysis that understands interdependent, visual, and historical real estate documentation.
- **[Visualize](https://www.orbital.tech/)**: Property visualization and mapping to understand complex sites or portfolios.
- **[Report](https://www.orbital.tech/)**: Customizable reports and interactive site plans for client communication.
- **[Search](https://www.orbital.tech/)**: Centralized platform for locating, ordering, and storing due diligence data.
- **[Orbital Copilot](https://www.orbital.tech/)**: An AI agent (built before the mainstream boom) that assists with drafting complex real estate documents and managing transaction workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: Annual Revenue ~$2.8M (estimated, per LinkedIn), Total Funding $57.7M (including a $44M Series B in January 2026 led by four investors)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Outward VC, LocalGlobe, JLL Spark, Seedcamp; clients include top-tier law firms (Am Law 100, Magic Circle) and global property businesses.
- **Growth Signals**: Powers over 200,000 real estate transactions per year; headcount of ~104 employees (offices in New York and London); actively hiring (22 open roles as of mid-2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built AI for real estate law**: Handles jurisdictional nuance, spatial complexity, and transaction-specific risk – unlike general-purpose legal AI.
- **Trusted by elite firms**: Adopted by Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms, providing credibility and a strong network effect.
- **Multi-disciplinary team**: Combines domain experts (former lawyers, conveyancers) with AI/engineering talent to ensure real-world accuracy.
- **End-to-end workflow**: Covers the full diligence process from search and review to visualization and reporting.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale AI capabilities (especially Orbital Copilot and agentic workflows) across the US and UK.
- Deepen integrations with law firms and property companies to embed Orbital into daily workflows.
- Expand customer base beyond law firms to in-house legal teams, lenders, and insurers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture and values**: “Eat that Frog” (tackle impactful work first), “Bold & Ambitious”, “Power to our People”, “Embrace debate and move forward together”. A highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
- **Flexibility**: Flexible work options – from London or New York offices, or from home.
- **Perks**: Share options in a high-growth startup, matched pension contributions, £1,000/$1,200 personal learning & development budget, healthcare, eye care, commuter schemes, enhanced parental leave, regular team lunches and socials.
- **Engineering focus**: Led by CTO Andrew Thompson (20 years of product leadership) and VP of AI Matt Westcott. Opportunities to work with LLMs, agentic AI, and real estate data at scale.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling, backed by top VCs, with a clear product-market fit in a large, underserved market.

## Sources
1. [orbital.tech/careers](https://www.orbital.tech/careers)
2. [orbital.tech](https://www.orbital.tech/)
3. [orbital.tech/about](https://www.orbital.tech/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/orbital-technology](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbital-technology)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/orbital](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orbital)

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