Engineering Manager - Foundations

Legora; Town of Stockholm (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora, in New York, seeks an Engineering Manager, Foundations to lead the core backend services that power our platform. You will architect high-scale systems, drive technical excellence, and mentor a growing team of engineers responsible for reliable, secure software used by legal professionals worldwide.

You will own technical direction, set coding standards, and partner with product and security to raise the bar. If you thrive on ownership, scale, and building strong teams, this is your role.

Qualifications

• Experience leading backend teams and delivering scalable services.
• Strong collaboration with product, security, and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a backend engineering team, hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers at all levels.
• Own team health, remove blockers, and drive high performance."
• Set the technical bar for code quality, security, and system design across the team.
• Design and implement high-scale core backend services and APIs powering the platform.

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.
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.
1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview.
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.

The role:

As an Engineering Manager, Foundations at Legora, you'll lead the team responsible for the core backend services and systems at the heart of our platform. You'll architect and deliver the high-scale services that power legal professionals' workflows every day, drive technical excellence at the foundation layer, and help shape a platform relied on by forward‑thinking law firms around the world. This is a role for someone who thrives on owning complex, critical systems and loves to build, mentor, and scale both people and software.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and grow a team of backend engineers hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers at all levels
• Own team health: keep your team efficient, unblocked, and set up to do their best work
• Set the technical bar: drive code quality, security, and system design standards across the team
• Design and implement high‑scale core backend services and APIs that power the entire Legora platform

• Contribute directly to the codebase while supporting the growth of your team
• Lead architecture discussions and technical decision‑making on foundational systems
• Set and uphold high standards in code quality, security, and system design