Legal Counsel

Publicado 29-04-2022

Codacy

Lisboa Lisboa (Contabilidade / Finanças)


Digital transformation keeps accelerating as every company wants to be software-led spending between 19-50% budget on R&D. However, organizations are driving blind and have little understanding of how impactful or effective they are digitally transforming their businesses.

Our DevOps Intelligence Platform aims to give management teams visibility on their investment and enable software development teams to achieve their full potential. Our vision is to enable everyone to craft software with confidence and focus on impacting the world at the speed of thought.

We?ve built a suite of products that help developers quantify and act on their software quality, engineering performance, and security through Codacy, which focuses on Software quality, and Pulse, which measures engineering health and performance so teams can continually improve with data-driven insights. We?re now onboarding larger organizations at scale.

We are a team of highly dedicated and ambitious domain experts. We are curious, funny, radically honest yet kind, and we thrive on collaboration and transparency. Our main focus is on creating value for our customers. We?re joined by our mission to create insights for teams to reach their full potential. And we?re driven by our impact in the world of software development.

We are looking for a highly qualified Legal Counsel to oversee the legal aspects of our business. You will safeguard our reputation by guaranteeing that the company strictly follows law guidelines and give legal advice to management about all relevant issues.

What will be your day to day:

  • Give accurate and timely counsel to executives on a variety of legal topics (labor law, partnerships, commercial agreements, corporate finance, etc.)
  • Specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance
  • Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations
  • Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on possible legal issues
  • Draft and solidify agreements, contracts, and other legal documents to ensure the company?s full legal rights
  • Deal with complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces
  • Provide clarification on legal language or specifications to everyone in the organization
  • Conduct your work with integrity and responsibility
  • Maintain current knowledge of alterations in legislation
  • You will be reporting to the COO and will work closely with other business functions

Requirements:

  • Proven experience as a Legal Counsel in a business environment
  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and procedures
  • Full comprehension of the influences of the external environment of a corporation
  • Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies
  • High degree of professional ethics and integrity
  • Sound judgment and ability to analyze situations and information
  • Outstanding communication skills
  • BSc degree in Law or J.D. degree
  • You will be working in an international environment, so a high level of spoken and written English is required
  • You?re meticulous with detail, you?re a great problem solver, you manage time like a true leader, you?re super organized, and you?re a great communicator

What else makes working at Codacy great?

  • Competitive Salary. Check our salary calculator at https://www.codacy.com/careers
  • Comprehensive health insurance for household members, with dental and vision
  • Generous learning and development budget
  • Offline days
  • Flexible holidays
  • Flexible working hours
  • A remote-first work policy

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