Legal Officer

**Responsibilities and duties**:

- Review and draft legal contracts and documents referred to you and provide advice to internal and external teams and lead as relevant
- Take direction and work independently with mínimal supervision taking ownership /responsibility for matters allocated to you
- Be thorough in company policies, legal documentation/templates, and licensing models as it applies to your day to day work to be in a position to respond to queries from external teams
- Be thorough on matters handled by you and provide input on team discussions/queries relating to the same
- Deliver in accordance with team SLAs in a global work environment
- Pro-actively research into matters you are assigned
- Diligently attend to any matter referred to you by the team

**Qualifications and experience**:

- A degree in law is a must. Bar qualification is an added advantage unless it is a requirement in the location. Law firm training an advantage
- Domain knowledge with a focus on contracting and corporate law
- Experience working in a fast-paced global work environment across time zones is an advantage
- Good communication skills
- Strong work ethic
- Minimum of 1-year experience in a similar capacity

**In Addition to a Competitive Compensation Package, WSO2 Offers**:

- A work culture and environment where we value both hard work AND flexibility.
- A sensible vacation/leave plan that fits your needs.
- Health insurance for you and your family.

**About WSO2**:
Founded in 2005, WSO2 enables the composable enterprise. Our open-source, API-first and decentralized approach helps developers and architects to be more productive and rapidly compose digital products to meet demand. Customers choose us for our broad, integrated platform, approach to open source, and digital transformation methodology. The company’s hybrid platform for developing, reusing, running, and managing integrations prevents lock-in through open-source software that runs on-premises or in the cloud. WSO2 has over 800 employees worldwide with offices in Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Sri Lanka, the UAE, the UK, and the US. Today, hundreds of leading brands across the globe and thousands of projects execute more than 18 trillion transactions annually using WSO2’s technologies.

**Diversity Drives Innovation**:We’ve built our business on a commitment to diversity and inclusion. We believe it’s important to foster an environment that values and respects each individual’s strengths, perspectives, and ideas. Doing so not only drives innovation; it also ensures that we can create superior experiences for our customers, partners, and employees worldwide. We value the diversity of our team regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran or marital status, and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.