Legal Counsel

About Wayflyer

Our mission is to empower eCommerce stores to unlock their full potential. Want to join us?

Wayflyer is revolutionising eCommerce by levelling the playing field for founders across the world. Our first product, the Merchant Cash Advance, solves a major pain point for brands: access to short-term finance to fund inventory and marketing spend.

Since launching in April 2020, we’ve deployed over $3.0bn in funding to 1,000’s of eCommerce founders across 10 countries.

We’ve helped companies like Wild, Dock & Bay and Branch take their businesses to the next level. Check out this video from Davie Fogherty, another one of our brilliant customers, giving a great explanation of what we do and how we helped The Oodie go from strength to strength.

We’re a fast-growing, venture-backed startup that serves a critical need for eCommerce entrepreneurs. You'll be joining an ambitious, collaborative team that's working on a huge opportunity.

We announced our Series B in February 2022 raising $150m in funding at $1.6bn valuation; backed by world-leading VCs including QED and DST Global.

Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. Regardless of your role at Wayflyer, you'll work with a variety of different disciplines and teams from around the world on a multitude of challenging projects and game-changing products to revolutionise the eCommerce landscape.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and flexible finance lawyer to join Wayflyer's Legal and Compliance team. This role will be a critical component supporting internal teams, working with third parties, and providing day-to-day and strategic advice on a broad range of legal matters.

What will you do?

• Lead on drafting and reviewing customer facing documents, agreements and side letters relating to our financial products
• Day to day support to internal teams on issues affecting and queries on our financial products
• Collaborate with business stakeholders on legal considerations associated with launching new products and making enhancements to our existing products
• Support on various finance transactions, debt capital markets and security arrangements
• Review and negotiate commercial contacts with our service providers and partners
• Ensure our contractual templates, playbooks and other standard terms are kept up to date
• Assist in advising the business on ancillary areas such as data protection, corporate compliance, intellectual property.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• You are a qualified lawyer
• You have 2-3 years experience working as a lawyer either in practice or in-house, with experience in financial and/or banking matters
• You have a demonstrated ability to work across areas outside of your core practice areas (corporate transactions, data protection, commercial contracts) and will have completed a training seat in at least one of these areas.
• You are able to work collaboratively with counterpart lawyers to drive efficiencies in transaction processes
• You have a strong commercial acumen and can make risk based decisions, seeking appropriate guidance and input when required. You can work with a variety of business stakeholders and understand their needs, partnering collaboratively with them to find creative solutions.
• You have a creative mindset, rarely or never saying “no” but rather saying “let’s try this instead”
• You have high energy and enthusiasm for how the legal department can bring value to the business and help it resolve some of its hardest problems.
• You can work at pace and deal effectively with ambiguity
• You can work autonomously without the need for significant guidance or input, seeking feedback and input at appropriate junctures.

What happens next

We’ll review every application we receive. If we’re interested in taking your application further, we will be in touch to find out more about you and what you’re looking for.

What perks and benefits do we offer?

• Equity scheme
• Private healthcare
• Generous paid leave + public holidays
• Home working equipment
• Supportive parent policies
• Flexible working
• Offices in Dublin, London, and Sydney