Legal Counsel

About this role

About Dwelly Dwelly is building the AI operating system for residential lettings. Its growing network of agencies provides its AI with real-world data, continuous feedback, and control over complete workflows, making exceptional service the standard for landlords and tenants. Today, Dwelly operates more than 15,000 properties and $470 million in GMV, making it one of the UK’s ten largest lettings operators. The company has raised $263 million.

We’re a fast-growing, product-focused company, backed by top-tier investors and led by a team with deep experience in real estate, technology, and operations Position summary We are looking for a talented lawyer, around 4 PQE+, with a strong private practice grounding (and, ideally, some in-house exposure) to join and help scale our legal team. You will work closely with the General Counsel as an early legal hire in an industry changing business.

The role will suit a commercially-minded lawyer able to support a broad range of legal matters in a fast-paced growth environment. Familiarity with M&A is important given Dwelly's acquisition-led business model, alongside an appetite to work across the other legal matters a scaling tech business is likely to face (fundraising, AI-product roll-outs, litigation, employment, data, compliance, general commercial, and more).

Key responsibilities Working with autonomy on day-to-day legal matters, while escalating and taking guidance from senior legal counsel as needed. Supporting a broad mix of work — this could include assisting on fundraising, working closely with our product engineers, reviewing data and AI regulatory questions, or leading on M&A deals as part of our roll-up strategy. Applying sound common sense and commercial judgement, and thinking beyond the strict legal wheelhouse to help minimise risk rather than acting as a 'gatekeeper' for what is legally possible.

Growing into broader responsibility over time, with genuine scope for progression and, in due course, involvement in supporting more junior members of the legal team. Using AI and technology to work smarter — we expect our lawyers to actively embrace AI tools (such as Wordsmith and similar legal-AI platforms) to draft, automate and scale legal work, building reusable templates, playbooks and workflows, and using low-code/no-code and coding approaches to solve legal and operational problems rather than doing everything by hand.