Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

In this role you will build features and functionality for the Everlaw core product. You will work closely with our Product, Design, DevOps, Security Engineering and our application engineering leads to synthesize requirements and prioritize efforts. You will lead roadmapping, resourcing and execution for critical features and capabilities. You will support and coach engineers in their career development and growth. You will work closely with our Engineering Operations team to improve processes to help with goal setting, empowerment and execution across Everlaw Engineering efforts.

Engineering is the backbone of Everlaw. We build features that delight our customers and apply the latest technical innovations to the product, while ensuring its smooth functioning. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure. We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems throughout the tech stack and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback.

Everlaw's mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our company culture is open and vibrant and we're committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals. If you're looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we'd love to hear from you! Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the 'perfect' candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.

This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.

Getting Started

• We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals.
• We're excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you'll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don't expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In Your Role, You'll...

• Critically observe and understand Everlaw's platform, tooling and processes.
• Understand current and upcoming challenges and requirements from the viewpoint of multiple stakeholders.
• Understand company goals and Product roadmaps.
• Strategize, prioritize, resource and execute against features.
• Actively coach your reports to deliver on projects and ensure they get the right types of feedback and coaching they need to succeed in their careers.
• Work with Engineering Operations, cross-functional teams, team members and managers to improve various processes that affect infrastructure growth, support, alignment, collaboration and accountability.

About You

• You have a BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent).
• You have a sound foundational understanding of a wide range of computer science topics and concerns relating to system and software design.
• You have at least 5 years of experience as a senior engineer building product features and full-stack web applications.
• You have a good dynamic range that you apply to different situations - you can step back and empower, while also diving deep into the code to understand the details.
• You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience working with stakeholder teams (internal and/or external) in setting and collaborating on technical roadmaps.
• You have experience communicating with customers articulating to them how the platform works on reliability, security and compliance matters.
• You have at least 1 year experience leading software engineers - either as a manager managing engineers or as a technical lead managing the technical workstreams of software engineers. You have experience managing the technical workstreams of software engineers and supporting them in execution.
• You have demonstrated the ability to lead an inspired, high performing and highly motivated and accountable team.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas.

Pursue Truth While Finding Yours

At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you're empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work. That's why we're committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you're looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we'd love to hear from you!

We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today.

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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