Software Engineering Manager

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to help grow our engineering teams and culture bring forward innovation to our technology organization and be an advocate to best engineering practices. This role involves being hands on with our software and services as well as building domain expertise in SaaS Legal-tech and Fintech.  Your responsibilities and efforts will be focused on the MyCase legal practice management software.

What You'll Do

• Develop scalable applications in a modern web application framework (Rails React Node NextJS or equivalent)

• Build modern frontend technologies and libraries (React Bootstrap CSS Tailwind)

• Participate in hiring and recruiting to build out engineering teams

• Manage engineers in multiple teams and facilitating strong collaboration

• Ensure high software engineering quality and standards are practiced throughout the software lifecycle

• Actively optimizing engineering processes in order to improve efficiencies

• Strong Product collaboration to proactively consider trade-offs identify risks to timelines consider where we can improve as a team in order to deliver business outcomes

• Mentor onboard and coach software engineers fostering their professional growth and development

• Collaborate with UX to help design to ship modern web applications with customer usability in mind

• Support software deployments including debugging troubleshooting and coordination with DevOps and QA Engineers

• Collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements communicate technical solutions and ensure alignment with business objectives

• Lead team meetings including sprint planning grooming and retros ensuring effective communication and coordination within the team

• Drive technology initiatives within the team and product to maintain application performance scalability and sustainability

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies continuously learning and evolving your skills to drive innovation and excellence within the team

• Provide technical expertise to the broader engineering group to help drive positive results and outcomes

About You

• BS in Computer Science or related field

• 7+ years of experience designing implementing monitoring and debugging large-scale solutions in cloud-based environments

• 2+ years of experience managing mentoring and leading engineering teams

• Experience building and deploying production-grade web applications at scale

• Familiar with LEAN product development and Agile frameworks - Scrum or Kanban

• People management skills

• Have built API

• Expert in Frontend technologies

• Strong understanding of SOLID design principles and design patterns

• Strong understanding with SQL and familiarity with databases such as Postgres or MySql

• Strong teamwork and documentation skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS GCE)

• Experience in full-stack web development

• Experience with Ruby on Rails React NodeJS NextJS is a plus

• Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications at scale

• Experience in writing front-end components using React

• Experience managing multiple teams

• Experience managing engineers

• Experience optimizing processes and streamlining development workflows