Engineering Manager

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; USD 224,000 - 304,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

Family support program

Parental leave

Maven Clinic access

Dependent Care FSA

One Medical membership

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Life Insurance

401(K) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Identity protection

Job summary

Legora is seeking an Engineering Manager in New York City to lead a talented engineering team. You will be hands-on in code while guiding architecture, designing scalable features, and driving technical excellence for a product used by leading law firms worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Design, and ensure high standards for security and performance. This in-person role requires strong leadership, empathy, and a passion for building great teams in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of leadership experience in engineering
• Hands-on coding with ability to guide a team
• Strong architecture and systems ownership across teams
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end features across the fullstack platform
• Stay hands-on while growing and leading the team
• Lead architecture and critical technical decisions
• Partner with Product and Design to ship value quickly
• Review code and mentor engineers at all levels
• Champion best practices in development, DevOps, and security

Skills

Leadership experience

Hands-on coding

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Node.js

React

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.

About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.

Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.

2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.

We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.

Joining Legora means three things.

• We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.


• We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.


• We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.

If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

About The Role

As an Engineering Manager at Legora, you'll lead by example: hands-on in the code while guiding a talented team of engineers. You'll architect and deliver features that make legal professionals' lives easier, drive technical excellence, and help shape a product used by forward-thinking law firms around the world. This is the role for someone who loves to build, mentor, and scale both people and systems.

What You'll Do

• Build end-to-end features across our fullstack platform


• Stay hands-on in the codebase while growing your team


• Lead architecture and technical decisions, holding a high bar for quality, security, and performance


• Partner with Product and Design to ship value quickly and reliably


• Review code and mentor engineers at all levels


• Champion best practices in development, DevOps, and continuous improvement


• Work with Node.js, React, Azure, AWS and Kubernetes


• Keep your team healthy and efficient

Who You Are

• A seasoned fullstack or backend engineer with 1-3 years of leadership experience


• Comfortable being hands-on while also setting technical direction


• Skilled in building scalable products and owning complex systems end-to-end


• Strong communicator who leads with empathy and clarity


• Passionate about mentoring others and helping teams grow


• Confident working across backend, frontend, and infrastructure


• Curious, pragmatic, and always looking for smarter ways to build and deliver


• But most importantly, you are someone who:




• \"Gets stuff done\" and understands building a successful company isn't always glamorous and takes hard work and long hours


• Proactively and independently solves the most burning problems


• Thrives in a fast-paced environment where the answers aren't always clear and processes are few


• Candidates will go through the same interview process as software engineering candidates (including a coding task and a technical interview), with additional interview steps at the end designed for the engineering manager role.


• This is a New York City-based, 5-day in-office role, we believe building together in person drives better outcomes.

What’s In It For You

• Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients domestically and internationally.


• Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.


• Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.


• In-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders.


• Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package:

Medical, Dental & Vision

• Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente


• HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)


• Dental plans via MetLife


• Vision plans via Vision Care

Family Support

• Generous parental leave


• Free access to Maven Clinic


• Dependent Care FSA


• Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents

Additional Perks

• Pre-tax commuter benefits


• Life Insurance + STD/LTD


• 401(K) with generous company match


• Unlimited PTO


• Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Compensation Range: $224.4K - $303.6K