Hands-On Engineering Manager — Scale a Global Platform (NYC)

Legora AB; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(K) with generous company match

Unlimited PTO

Free One Medical membership for depend

Life Insurance

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Dependent Care FSA

Job summary

Legora is seeking an Engineering Manager in New York City to lead a talented team of engineers, mentor developers, and ship features that streamline legal workflows. You’ll stay hands-on in code while guiding architecture, security, and performance decisions to deliver scalable, user-centric products used by leading law firms worldwide.

Based in NYC with a 5-day in-office schedule, you’ll partner with Product and Design to move quickly, maintain high standards, and grow people and systems.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of leadership experience in engineering teams.
• Hands-on with full-stack development and code ownership.
• Experience with Node.js, React, Azure, AWS and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and mentoring abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end features across our full-stack platform.
• Stay hands-on while growing your team.
• Lead architecture and technical decisions with 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.

Skills

Leadership experience

Hands-on coding

Communication

Mentoring

System design

Tools

Node.js

React

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

DevOps

Security best practices

Job description

Legora is seeking an Engineering Manager in New York City to lead a talented team of engineers, mentor developers, and ship features that streamline legal workflows. You’ll stay hands-on in code while guiding architecture, security, and performance decisions to deliver scalable, user-centric products used by leading law firms worldwide.

Based in NYC with a 5-day in-office schedule, you’ll partner with Product and Design to move quickly, maintain high standards, and grow people and systems.