Anika Legal

Anika Legal is a free online legal service for Victorian renters. We currently specialise in tenancy rights and tenancy repairs. We are mostly a volunteer organisation, with 3 full time paid staff and 20+ volunteers. Our service currently works like this: A client submits their problem to us on our website, a paralegal, typically a volunteer law student, engages with the client and gives advice which is then approved by our supervising lawyer. We have been running for ~18 months and are currently focusing on scaling our services and becoming self-funded. We plan to fund our services by providing a practical legal training unit to universities, who will pay per-student. The tech team is just me at the moment. You would be the second addition to the team, so I can't really speak to our engineering culture yet. That said, you will be given autonomy and will contribute to key decisions about our work. Work is done during personal time with a time commitment between 2-10 hours per week. This may change as we launch our first pilot course with a university in June - there may be more work to do as we hit some unforeseen issues. I can say there are some good things about volunteering with Anika: You're helping vulnerable people deal with stressful rental problems with your webdev skills, you get to wear lots of hats: a little bit of CTO, business analyst, frontend, backend and infra, the culture is really good: high trust, friendly, ambitious.