Today, he's known at Legora for tackling the problems with no obvious owner, the unglamorous work that falls between the cracks but can make or break a company as it scales.

Finding his way to Legora

Oskar’s career started at EY, where he trained as an auditor before realizing that his real interest was in data. That led him to a Swedish energy startup, where he worked on building data infrastructure, and eventually into backend development.

But Oskar's move to Legora was different. It wasn’t simply the role that convinced him to make the jump. It was the people and the way they thought.

“It didn’t feel like a traditional interview. I was actually working on a coding problem, and it led to a really interesting discussion and sharing of ideas within the team. I knew after that meeting I had to be involved in building this company, and work alongside people who think the same way as me.”

Being surrounded by people who are willing to question how things are done and figure things out together has continued to be a big focus when hiring new members of Oskar’s team as they scale.

Scaling without losing the culture

Oskar’s role has changed significantly over time as the company has grown. The engineering team has grown with it, but the culture that brought people together early on has remained remarkably consistent, with an emphasis on high standards, a willingness to take ownership and a shared appetite for constantly building.

"When I joined, there were very skilled people, but the team was small. Now it's bigger, because the product's grown fast but the same energy is there. There's always someone to bounce ideas off, and that appetite for building hasn't changed."

That growth is now happening across locations, too. Stockholm remains home to most of the engineering team, while the New York and London teams are beginning to expand. Oskar and other engineers now spend regular stints in the other offices to help build the team and establish the same culture on the ground.

For Oskar, maintaining that culture comes down to being intentional about who joins the team. Legora keeps its hiring bar high, looking for people who share the same standards and excitement for building.

“We keep the bar high when we hire. But in return we get this engineering culture with very high standards, which I think is really important if we’re going to succeed.”

That same mindset extends to how the team works. Engineers are encouraged to go beyond their immediate remit and take ownership of problems that interest them.

Oskar has had much experience doing exactly that, including when he picked up a platform stability issue that wasn’t technically his to solve, simply because he wanted to see if he could fix it.

A deep dive behind the build

"I noticed an opportunity to make the platform faster.

The first step was understanding where the time was actually going. So I dug into the code to see exactly where it was being spent and where small gains were hiding.

I didn't find one big lever to pull. Instead, I found hundreds of small operations, each taking milliseconds, sitting on a path that every user hits. Individually tiny, but across the platform they added up to a meaningful opportunity.

I was excited to dig in. I started with caching and cutting out work that was being repeated unnecessarily.

This is exactly why I love working at Legora. At a fast-growing company, it's easy to overlook what seem like small wins, but these small things are what make a product great.

It wasn't technically my problem to solve, but I had the freedom to go find the opportunity anyway. Knowing leadership encourages that kind of proactivity and curiosity is exactly why we keep making this kind of progress on the product, and why I love what I do."

Building for lawyers

As part of Legora’s enterprise engineering team, Oskar builds the product, informed by feedback from law firms. That means Legora’s engineers get a level of feedback you don’t always get in product development, as they hear directly from customers what is working, what isn’t and what they need next.

One fundamental for Legora’s customers is security. As Oskar puts it: “Every company says security first, but we really mean it. Security isn’t something we can balance against speed. We have to write secure code and work in a secure way, while still keeping up the pace.”

For Oskar, that's part of what makes the engineering challenge at Legora different. You're building quickly, but you're building for customers where the stakes are high.

One thing Oskar says makes that easier is being in the office with the team five days a week. This allows people to solve problems together in the room rather than over Slack, catching issues faster, pairing through the hard problems, and keeping the pace up without cutting corners on security.

This culture extends outside of the office too, and Oskar and his team now often go bouldering and running together outside work. For anyone thinking about joining, Oskar sees this as one of the real draws of the Stockholm office. 

As for the city itself, his firm recommendation is the Vasa Museum. “It’s just a ship, but it’s still cool,” he says.

As for why someone should join the engineering team in Stockholm, his answer is simple: "If you like engineering, and want to work with smart people who are passionate about the same things, then come join us.”

If you are an engineer who wants to be part of our team, check out our careers page: https://legora.com/careers