Legora
Engineering Manager
New York City. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will lead a team of engineers while remaining hands-on in the code. You will architect and deliver features for a fullstack platform used by legal professionals.
What you will do
- Design and implement end-to-end features across our fullstack platform
- Contribute directly to the codebase while supporting the growth of your team
- Lead architecture discussions and technical decision-making
- Ensure high standards in code quality, security, and performance
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design to ship value quickly and reliably
- Review code, give feedback, and mentor engineers at all levels
- Champion best practices in development, DevOps, and continuous improvement
- Work with Node.js, React, Azure, AWS and Kubernetes
- Work every day to ensure your team is healthy and efficient
Required qualifications
- 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
- Gets stuff done and understands building a successful company 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
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
- HSA or Healthcare FSA
- Dental plans via MetLife
- Vision plans via Vision Care
- Generous parental leave
- Free access to Maven Clinic
- Dependent Care FSA
- Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Life Insurance + STD/LTD
- 401(K) with generous company match
Before you apply
- Candidates will go through the same interview process as software engineering candidates including a coding task and a technical interview
- Additional interview steps at the end designed for the engineering manager role
About the company
Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.