Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

Highlights

• Lead backend teams building core product lawyers use daily for legal work.
• Define multi-quarter technical strategy for user-facing AI features.
• Ship complex workflows and collaboration tools powered by agentic AI.

Ideal candidate

Product-minded backend leader who thrives in fast, high-ownership environments and cares about shipping simple, impactful experiences for legal professionals while growing high-trust engineering teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years in software engineering management leading product engineering teams, preferably in high-growth environments
• 12+ years of software engineering experience as a backend engineer
• Track record of leading high-performing, engaged engineering teams
• Strong product sense balancing speed, quality, and user impact
• Experience with backend systems (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and modern cloud-native infrastructure
• Ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks and take decisive, proactive measures
• Experience building RAG pipelines and managing the data lifecycle
• Exposure to AI-powered applications or complex internal tools (a plus)