Job Application for Lawyer & Legal Product Builder at BRIDGE IN Careers

Location: Remote 🌍 but Portugal-based. Some activities require being on the ground in Lisbon or Porto, so you should be able to travel there when needed.

Type: Full-time

Experience: Mid to Senior level

Expertise: Employment Law, Commercial Contracts, Corporate & Compliance, Data Protection, and a genuine appetite for technology

This is a great position for

A law-firm associate who wants to wear jeans and actually see the business their advice touches. We do serious legal work, but we don’t make people suffer through billable-hour theatre or face-time in a suit just because. We offer real autonomy, schedule flexibility, and remote-first work. It’s about protecting and enabling the business, not papering files. It is about impact as well. So far, we’ve helped bring over €120M in direct foreign investment to the local economy.

A lawyer who wants to build, not just advise. We’re not hiring an in-house “department of no.” We’re hiring a lawyer with a tech inclination, someone who delivers legal services to our customers and helps us turn legal expertise into product. If you like ambition and pace, and you’re curious about what happens when legal work meets software, this is for you.

The Mission, should you choose to accept it

BRIDGE IN is a bootstrapped, profitable (€25M+ revenue to date), and remote-first company with the vision of eliminating the burden of bureaucracy by leveraging technology and innovation, empowering organizations worldwide to create opportunities and freeing people to focus on meaningful work.

🚀 You might have seen BRIDGE IN on lists like Top 10 Portuguese Startups, elected the 15th Fastest-Growing Company in Southern Europe, or ranked #5 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. That’s cool, but what it really means is that we’ve created momentum through sheer determination and value creation, no VC monopoly money.

🔥 We’ve moved beyond the initial scramble. We’re profitable, we have traction, and that gives us the rare luxury of building for the future instead of the next funding round. But make no mistake, there is urgency, and the pace of innovation waits for no one. As an Employer-of-Record (EOR) and Company-as-a-Service (CaaS) provider operating across Portugal, Spain, and Italy, and expanding beyond, every contract we sign and every jurisdiction we enter carries real legal weight. And as we scale, more of that legal expertise becomes product: codified, automated, and delivered to customers. We need someone to own both sides of that.

We are looking for an experienced Lawyer who thinks like an owner, not an outside advisor. Your job is twofold: deliver sharp legal services to our customers, and help us build the legal product that lets us serve the next thousand. You won’t be forwarding disclaimers and quoting statutes, you’ll be solving real customer problems and turning the best answers into repeatable, productised playbooks.

Build the future of your profession

Most legal work is still done the way it was decades ago. We don’t think it has to stay that way. We’re deploying edge technologies to reinvent how legal services are delivered faster, more consistently, and more accessibly. If you want to help create the future of your profession rather than watch it happen from the sidelines, you’ll have the mandate and the tools to do it here.

What you will do

Employment Contracts & Labour Law: Draft and review employment contracts in Portugal and own the legal substance behind our EOR offering — the contracts, terms, and labour-law decisions that govern how we employ people on behalf of our customers.
Commercial Agreements: Prepare and analyse customer and supplier agreements, confidentiality, sales, services, and own the contract lifecycle from draft to signature.
Customer Legal Services: Be the legal expert our customers rely on. Provide clear, commercially-minded guidance that supports their operations and keeps them compliant.
Legal Product Liaison: Turn recurring legal work into product — playbooks, templates, and automations that let us deliver legal value at scale. We have a Product and Engineering team building, but we need you as a Subject Matter Expert.
Corporate & Governmental Operations: Execute the legal operations that keep the company and our customers running, including power-of-attorney representation and interfacing with governmental agencies and public bodies.
Public-Facing Legal: Draft and maintain terms of use, disclaimers, and privacy policies. You own what the company says to the world, legally.
Data Protection: Keep our customers and us GDPR-compliant as a business handling employment and personal data across the EU.

Who you are

A qualified Portuguese lawyer: Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Law or similar, and membership of the Portuguese Bar (Ordem dos Advogados) is mandatory.
Bilingual operator: Professional written and spoken English and Portuguese. Both are non-negotiable. You’ll work across an international team and a Portuguese legal reality every day.
Grounded in Portuguese Labour Law: This is the core. You know it, or you’re already deep in it.
Commercially fluent: Working knowledge of GDPR. International Trade Law and Corporate Law are nice-to-haves that will make you stand out.
A technology optimist: You don’t need to code, but you need to believe legal work can be made better with software, letting automation carry the repetition and let humans focus on higher-level work.
Rigorous: You’re deliberate and thorough. In legal work, “roughly right” isn’t a thing. You catch what others miss.
Self-managing: You prioritise, manage your own time, and get things done without being chased. Comfortable with the corporate productivity stack (web conferencing, email, docs).
A team-first, can-do player: No drama, no politics. You understand technology businesses, or you’re genuinely curious about them.

What we offer

Freedom: We’re remote-first. We care about outcomes, not office hours. (Note: some legal activities require on-site presence in Lisbon or Porto, so you should be Portugal-based and available to travel there when needed.)
Impact: Your work directly protects and enables the growth of the business and our international customers, from unicorns to publicly traded companies.
Stability: We’re a profitable, healthy business. No existential funding anxiety here.
Recognition on merit: You’ll be recognised for what you deliver, not internal politics.
Real benefits: Competitive salary, variable bonus aligned with business results, and Private Health Insurance.
Growth: Career growth and continuous personal development, with a diverse international team and no jerks.

BRIDGE IN is working to support the future of work and decentralised companies, providing a Company-as-a-Service platform to democratise access to opportunities, automate bureaucracy, and facilitate global expansion. BRIDGE IN is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion, and above all, merit.

Ready to apply? Great. Our selection process is designed to be as thoughtful and rigorous as the work itself, a data-driven review of your experience followed by a human-to-human conversation to make sure we’re a great fit for each other. We’re excited to see what we can build together.