Legal Direct - Engineering Manager

About the position

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to own one of our fastest-growing product lines in the Legal vertical. You'll work across web and backend services, optimizing performance, integrating disparate systems, and steering technical change that unlocks the next growth phase. If you thrive on bringing clarity to a complex domain, enjoy connecting systems, and like seeing your work move the business needle, we'd love to talk.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current systems and emerging business needs, propose and design new architectural components, and shepherd them from Proposal to implementation to rollout.
• Scale existing services for higher throughput and reliability while paying down technical debt.
• Write and review code daily (JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Python).
• Keep quality high through automated tests and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with product and business stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and sequence initiatives that cut across multiple systems.
• Translate ideas into actionable engineering plans.
• Orchestrate root-cause analysis and share clear, timely updates with stakeholders when issues arise.
• Set crisp technical expectations, give regular feedback, and cultivate a culture of ownership, accountability, and experimentation without excessive process.

Requirements

• Experience managing engineering teams for at least three years.
• Full-stack proficiency: Frontend - modern JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one major framework (React, Vue, or similar).
• Backend - solid PHP experience building and maintaining production APIs or services. Familiarity with Python is a plus.
• Designed and shipped interfaces (REST, GraphQL, webhooks, message queues) that stitch multiple services together.
• Comfortable defining metrics, writing SQL, interpreting dashboards, and using data to guide technical decisions.
• Shipped and scaled production features end-to-end, managing technical debt pragmatically.
• Translate business requirements into technical plans and communicate technical capabilities and limitations in business language.

Nice-to-haves

• Comfortable shipping applications and services on a Docker + Kubernetes stack.
• Familiarity with marketing & performance-marketing concepts (attribution, funnel KPIs, ROAS) and the analytics platforms that support them (GA, GTM, SEM).
• Experience with compliance frameworks (PII, PHI, HIPAA, HITECH).
• Exposure to experimentation frameworks and A/B testing.

Benefits

• Health insurance options such as medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical and dependent care.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match.
• Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• Commuter benefits.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and well-being coaching services.
• Voluntary benefits such as home, auto and pet insurance, and discounted legal and financial services.