Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager is a squad leader, people leader, and engineering steward responsible for managing delivery squads —with a shared roadmap, vision, and cross-team dependencies. In this role, you will own the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), build high-performing teams through active coaching and mentorship, and partner closely with Product, Design, and Technical Leads to deliver high-quality software that drives value for LawVu customers globally.

You lead results-driven delivery squads that operate with clear goals and ownership, fostering a high-trust environment where "blameless" problem-solving is the norm. 

In this role, you’ll help accelerate legal processes, drive creativity, and bring fresh, solutions to an industry ready for change. This is a chance to work on the cutting edge of legal tech, making a real impact on the future of legal ops and with an awesome team of humans!

What you will be doing:

This is a leadership position, and the skills you bring cross a variety of different disciplines, and you will need to switch and juggle between them all. 

Team Leadership

• Build and grow the squads: hire, onboard, and develop strong engineering and QA talent, with clear performance goals, regular 1:1s, and real-time coaching that translates into visible career growth.

• Set the culture: foster ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and strong communication, so the squad continuously improves on its own initiative.

• Handle HR matters and support resource/staffing planning across the squads and functions.

• Develop communication skills across the team.

Software Development & Delivery Execution

• Delivery is constant: uphold the SDLC, architectural best practices, and the Definition of Done, partnering with Product, Design, and Technical Leads so every sprint ships high-quality, well-tested work.

• Keep the squad unblocked: remove technical and non-technical impediments, and own change management and stakeholder communication during incidents, supporting the Tech Lead, who leads the technical response.

• Hit the bar: deliver against clear success criteria, quality, release frequency, security compliance, and defect rates.

• Support the Technical Lead with guidance on architecture and solution designs aligned to the target architecture. 

• There’s no expectation for hands on coding, can pitch in, when possible, especially with the advancements with AI. 

Operational Excellence

• Keep leadership informed: flag material estimates or scope changes early, and maintain accurate, visible work status across project tools.

• Manage stakeholders with confidence: build trusted relationships across Product, Design, and cross-functional partners, communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly so stakeholders stay aligned and confident in the squad's delivery.

• Strengthen how the team operates: surface risks, dependencies, and process gaps, and embed solid operational standards, runbooks, deployment checklists, incident management, and out-of-office coverage.

Roadmap & Strategic Planning

• Shape technical direction: partner with Technical Leads, Architecture, and fellow Engineering Managers to prioritise technical investment and keep delivery efficient across squads.

Agile Leadership

• Run a well-oiled squad: This means effective estimation, predictable forecasting, and delivery dates with confidence. Programmatic continual improvement with a reduced time to value. 

• Balance capacity: keep work-type allocation (features, support, tech debt) tracked and balanced, coaching the team toward continuous improvement.

Tech Debt & Quality

• Resolve what matters most: prioritise and drive down tech debt, starting with Sev1 root causes, critical/high security issues, and high-volume support pain points, while growing automated QA coverage as a core team metric.

AI & Continuous Learning

• Champion AI adoption & impact: embed AI-native tools like GitHub Copilot into daily workflows, track adoption as a team metric, and ensure the team invests regular time in training across AI, security, Agile, and testing.

What we need from you:

• 3+ years of experience of leading and developing teams.

• 8+ years of experience designing, building and shipping full stack applications; comfortable engaging across the UI, API and data layers including cloud infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Object Oriented design, automated testing.

• B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent skills and knowledge.

• Hands-on experience writing, reviewing, and debugging production code, with the technical credibility to guide engineering decisions.

• Experience leading teams in the adoption of AI-native engineering workflows to improve developer productivity and quality.

• Extensive professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of technical maturity and delivering complex systems.

• Working knowledge of Agile practices: user story decomposition, estimation, sprint planning, Kanban.

• Employee management skills: coaching, performance assessment, delegation and communication.

• Strong experience leading, coaching, and performance-managing engineers, including building and improving team capability over time.

• Ability to make mature, objective technical decisions grounded in principles and data.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate across technical and business audiences.
• Proven stakeholder management skills, building trust with Product, Design, and business stakeholders, and navigating competing priorities with confidence.

What sets us apart:

• Monthly wellness allowance to use on whatever enables you to bring your whole self to work – gym membership, massage, childcare…the list goes on!

• Health insurance 

• Extended paid parental leave

• Extra paid day off on your birthday

• Share options so you can have a piece of the pie

• Home office allowance set up for remote employees

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development. 

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are:

• Inspire and Delight: We go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.