Data Engineer

The role

You will own and improve the pipelines and infrastructure behind the legal knowledge base and document processing. You will report to the Head of Data and work with Product, AI Engineering, and Legal Engineering.

What you will do

• Manage and improve the infrastructure behind the legal database including case law, regulations, legal documents, and links between sources.
• Build and improve pipelines that process user document libraries from OCR and text extraction to context extraction, metadata tagging, and anonymization.
• Ensure files uploaded to private user libraries are handled securely and in line with privacy standards.
• Own pipeline health end to end with monitoring, alerting, and data quality checks.
• Optimize pipelines for large data volumes and propose architectural changes.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering, ideally in fast-growing tech, SaaS, or AI companies.
• Strong Python skills and proven experience designing and running scalable ETL pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, object storage, and vector databases.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data infrastructure.
• Experience setting up monitoring and alerting for production pipelines.
• Autonomy to own pipelines end to end.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Milan.
• Fluent in English and Italian.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-based document processing (LLMs, NLP, OCR).
• Experience handling sensitive or personal data.
• Hands-on experience with dbt and BigQuery.
• GCP is preferred; AWS or Azure also work.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work: Hybrid with office presence in our Milan hub.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to ensure peace of mind.
• Meal Vouchers: Daily support to make your lunch breaks easier.
• Team Retreats & Off-sites: Dedicated time to connect, collaborate, and spark bold ideas.

About the company

Lexroom is building the AI platform where legal work gets done. It is a team of around 300 builders backed by $73M from Left Lane Capital, Base10 Partners, and Eurazeo.