<div><strong>About Dodo Payments</strong></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dodopayments.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dodo Payments</strong></a> is a global <strong>Merchant of Record platform</strong> built for modern digital businesses. We make it effortless for founders to sell anywhere in the world by taking ownership of payments, local taxes, compliance, fraud prevention, and invoicing.</div><div><br></div><div>Our job is simple in principle and hard in execution: remove every operational distraction between a product and its revenue, so teams can stay focused on building and shipping.</div><div><br></div><div>Today, Dodo Payments powers revenue for thousands of businesses across the globe and operates at true global scale.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What we’ve built so far</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li>Trusted by <strong>25,000+ businesse</strong>s across<strong> 220+ countries and territories</strong></li><li>Supporting <strong>30+ local payment methods </strong>worldwide</li><li><strong>Ambitious roadmap:</strong>&nbsp;empower 50,000+ businesses over the next two years.</li><li>Backed by<strong> Antler, 9Unicorns, and leading angels,</strong> with <strong>$1.5M raised in seed funding</strong></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>How we work</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Engineering-first, product-led</strong></div><div>Our stack includes Rust, Next.js, Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, and Cloudflare. We build systems that move real money, handle real compliance, and operate at global scale. Reliability and correctness matter.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Global by design</strong></div><div>We’re a distributed team with async-friendly processes and a strong bias toward outcomes over hours logged.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>High ownership, real impact</strong></div><div>Small teams, wide ownership. Everyone ships work that directly affects customers, revenue, and platform stability.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Radical transparency</strong></div><div>Clear goals, open OKRs, regular town halls, and direct feedback. </div><div><br></div><div><strong>Why join Dodo Payments now</strong></div><div><br></div><div>We’re at an inflection point. Dodo Payments is large enough to solve meaningful, complex problems at scale, yet small enough that every new hire materially shapes the product, culture, and direction of the company.</div><div>If you enjoy ownership, first-principles thinking, and building infrastructure that powers global digital and AI-native businesses, you’ll feel at home here.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Come build with us</strong></div><div>If you’re excited about building the monetisation engine behind the next generation of digital products, we’d love to hear from you.</div><div>﻿</div>

Dodo Payments

<p><strong>About the Opportunity</strong><br>- Dodo Payments is a merchant of record operating across multiple jurisdictions. Every merchant, partner, and vendor relationship is documented and must be legally enforceable across multiple countries.<br>- This role is for a lawyer to own commercial contracts end-to-end and support corporate documentation, working directly with the Head of Legal, Compliance &amp; Partnerships and founders.</p>
<p><strong>Role &amp; Responsibilities</strong><br>- Own commercial contracts from first request to signature: draft, review, and negotiate vendor, partner, service, and data agreements and NDAs.<br>- Keep standard documentation current, including master services agreement, merchant terms, pricing schedules, privacy policy, and employment agreements, as business and legal requirements evolve.<br>- Build the contracting toolkit: templates, fallback positions on common clauses, a negotiation playbook, and a contract register showing signed agreements, counterparties, and renewal dates.<br>- Act as first point of contact on the legal inbox: resolve routine queries and route complex matters.<br>- Support corporate documentation workstreams, including employee equity documentation, on clearly scoped tasks, with opportunity to take on more as context builds.<br>- Support trademark matters and legal/entity inputs for security and compliance certifications.<br>- Coordinate with external counsel in other jurisdictions when contracts or filings require local input.</p>
<p><strong>Skills &amp; Qualifications</strong><br><strong>Must-Have</strong><br>- 1–2 years post-qualification experience in general corporate or commercial law at an Indian or international law firm, or in-house at a company with significant cross-border operations.<br>- Strong drafting skills: precise, clean, and readable by non-lawyers.<br>- Cross-border exposure: comfort with foreign-law contracts and counterparties outside India.<br>- Breadth over narrow specialization: ability to handle multiple contract types and jurisdictions.<br>- Judgment to distinguish critical negotiation points from concessions, and to explain the difference succinctly.<br>- Real interest in how legal work drives business outcomes; ability to see the commercial impact of drafting.</p>
<p><strong>Preferred</strong><br>- Experience in payments, fintech, or SaaS industries.<br>- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management tools.<br>- Prior exposure to regulatory compliance or security certifications.</p>
<p><strong>Benefits &amp; Culture Highlights</strong><br>- Health and Accidental insurances.<br>- Clear growth path based on performance.<br>- Ownership of a contract portfolio at a multi-jurisdiction payments company early in your career.<br>- Direct collaboration with founders and the Head of Legal, Compliance &amp; Partnerships.<br>- Cross-border commercial and corporate exposure rare in early-career roles.<br>- Predictable turnaround on contracts, current and version-controlled documentation, accurate contract register, and reduced first-draft time via templates and playbook within 3–6 months.</p>