Engineering Tech Lead, Migration Platform

Caret; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CARET is building an AI-enhanced migration platform for law firms. We’re seeking an Engineering Tech Lead to own the architecture end-to-end across extraction, transformation, and orchestration of migration data.

You’ll work hands-on and guide a small team, translating technical strategy into platform increments, ensuring correctness, traceability, and scalable go-live patterns.

Partner with a technical product manager to shape the roadmap and apply AI to accelerate data mapping and validation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building data-intensive backend systems.
• Experience with data migration and multi-tenant SaaS.
• Ability to lead architecture and hands-on coding.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across extraction, transformation, and orchestration.
• Lead a focused migration team and deliver platform capabilities.
• Apply AI thoughtfully to speed data mapping and transformation.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data quality & governance

SQL

Observability

Team leadership

Tools

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

CARET brings the latest in technology and automation to over 10,000 legal and accounting firms, empowering highly skilled professionals to refocus their expertise on what truly matters. CARET harnesses powerful and secure practice management, document automation, and payment processing to take firms, professionals, and their clients further.Our team-defined values guide how we show up for each other, for our partners, and for our customers:We succeed together.We embrace progress.We care big.We create space.About the roleWe're building a team to make migration a core capability of the CARET Legal platform. This team will create an AI-accelerated migration platform that helps law firms move onto CARET with greater speed, confidence, and predictability. This is a ground-up platform build, and we're hiring the Engineering Tech Lead who will own its architecture end to end. The role is ideal for an engineer who wants to turn complex migration work into a repeatable, scalable, AI-enabled platform capability.You will own the technical design across the whole migration pipeline: extracting data from customer source systems, assessing integration and synchronization options, building a transformation library, orchestrating migration workflows, automating assessment, and defining go-live paths that make onboarding smoother for customers. You will evaluatepossible approaches with an unbiased technical lens, set the build sequence, make the hard architectural calls, and stay hands-on. You will partner closely with a technical product manager on roadmap priorities and lead a focused team through design, implementation, and delivery.What you'll doOwn the architecture across extraction, transformation, and orchestration - the full migration pipeline.Translate technical strategy into buildable platform increments alongside the team.Develop deep knowledge of the CARET Legal data model and how it maps to application behavior, workflows, and customer outcomes.Gain an in-depth understanding of legal practice management and accounting, including the workflows, customer problems, and data relationships CARET Legal solves and supports.Design for correctness and scale, migrating legal practice data across many firms and source systems with a high bar for accuracy, traceability, and customer trust.Build repeatable go-live patterns that make migrations faster, more predictable, and easier for customers to adopt.Shape problems into buildable work with the technical product manager, making disciplined tradeoffs to keep delivery focused and predictable.Apply AI thoughtfully to accelerate migration assessment, mapping, validation, and engineering workflows where it improves speed, quality, and scalability.Lead the team and set a high technical bar, including clear documentation and handoff practices that keep the platform maintainable and easy to extend.Be the technical point of contact for operations and migrations, aligning technical decisions with migration planning and customer delivery needs.What we’re looking for8+ years building data-intensive backend systems, including experience leading architecture across a team.A unique ability to reverse engineer application systems by performing forensic analysis of their underlying data structures and storage.Deep experience building reliable data pipelines and ETL/ELT systems, including extraction, change data capture, transformation, and orchestration at scale.Hands-on strength in a modern data stack, including SQL, a transformation framework such as dbt, and cloud orchestration such as Microsoft Fabric or Azure Data Factory.A strong bias for correctness, observability, and traceability when data quality, lineage, and edge cases require disciplined engineering.Ability to operate as a hands-on technical lead: setting direction, raising the engineering bar, and contributing code.Pragmatism about scope and sequencing, with the judgment to pair a strong platform foundation with practical AI and automation where each creates durable value.Nice to haveExperience leading data migration or system-to-system consolidation initiatives.Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications and systems.Experience in legal, fintech, healthcare, or another domain with high standards for correctness, confidentiality, and compliance.Experience building a new platform or team from the ground up.Experience applying AI or LLMs responsibly to accelerate data mapping, assessment, or transformation.How the team worksYou’ll join a focused team inside our product and engineering organization, built to move quickly on a strategic platform capability. We work in short, fixed-length cycles with lightweight planning, clear ownership, and disciplined tradeoffs that keep delivery focused and predictable. The team has meaningful influence over architecture, sequencing, and implementation, with the autonomy to shape a durable migration capability for CARET Legal.LocationThis role is remote and open to candidates based in the United States or Canada.Benefits:Flexible PTOMedical, Dental, Paid Sick Days, Vision, and Supplemental CoverageFlexible Spending AccountHealth Savings Account401(k) matchIf you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! We value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about having a significant impact and shaping the foundations of a rapidly growing product, please apply!Equal Employment Opportunity: CARET is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.The compensation information below is provided in compliance with job posting disclosure requirements.Pay range: $170,000-$190,000 USD . Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including the position, location, individual qualifications, market finances, and other operations business needs.Depending on the position, compensation may also include commission, bonuses, etc. Potential for bonuses is based on company performance and potential for merit increases is based on performance.