Engineering Manager

About Rocket Lawyer

We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services.

Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, South America, and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 25 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered.

We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!

About the Role

Rocket Lawyer is seeking an experienced, passionate and hands-on Engineering Manager who wants to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a talented agile team. As part of a cross-functional team consisting of a product manager, designer, 4-6 software engineers and QA engineers, you will be actively managing one or more engineering teams to fulfill business needs.

 We value a fun, collaborative, team-oriented work environment, where we celebrate our accomplishments.

A Day in the Life

• Be responsible for the work output of one or more engineering teams
• Work closely with your team and cross-functional partners to prioritize work for your team
• Participate in sprint planning, scrum meetings, and sprint retrospectives
• Assign work to engineers on your team based on capabilities and business priorities
• Make direct technical contributions via writing code, creating technical documents, and performing code reviews
• Resolve blockers to keep your team moving forward
• Maintain a high standard of technical quality on your team
• Coach and mentor your team to perform at the highest level
• Participate in hiring and performance management decisions for your team and other teams
• Clearly communicate your team’s goals, priorities and accomplishments to peers and leadership

Experience

• Experience managing teams of 4+ engineers
• Experience building and maintaining SaaS products
• 6+ years experience in high-growth technology environments
• Experience with some of the following technologies: Java, Spring, Node, React, Typescript
• Experience with distributed systems
• Strong coding skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience developing internationalized software

Benefits & Perks

• Benefits & Perks
• Private health insurance 
• Life insurance
• Meal/Food voucher
• Gympass discount
• Daycare assistance
• Financial support with those who have children with special needs and disabilities
• Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates