Senior Engineering Manager

Description

​​About LegalZoom

LegalZoom is on a mission to help people navigate the legal system with confidence and clarity. As a leader in online legal services for over 20 years, we combine technology, attorneyled solutions, and expertise to protect the aspirations, lives, and legacies of millions of customers. If you’re ready to contribute to a collaborative, diverse, and distributed group of creative thinkers and problemsolvers, we can’t wait to meet you.

​​Where we work
In an effort to foster a better worklife balance, LegalZoom is committed to a remotefirst work environment. Our Austin, Beaverton, Frisco, LA Metro, and SF Bay Area offices allow our Zoomers to collaborate with teammates and offer special onsite events, lunches, and more.

While this position is remote, we encourage and at times, require inperson collaboration at our offices.

Overview

The Engineering team at LegalZoom builds user interfaces, features, applications, and tools for our customers. We’re in an exciting period of growth and seeking talented developers who share our vision for helping fuel the success of small businesses. This is a role for a creative individual who wants to help shape the future direction of our LegalZoom offerings and who has strong engineering chops, opinions on what good product and design flows look like, is comfortable with ambiguity, and enjoys collaborating within a team environment.

You’ll help by progressing the LegalZoom experience and you’ll also inspire and elevate the team by producing work that is always raising the bar and taking a customerobsessed approach to solving problems.

You will

• Lead teams developing secure and performant backend services and a stellar UI platform
• Lead and advocate for better development practices through CI, automated testing, and help improve operational efficiency of the team.
• Grow the technical expertise of your team around craft, quality, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance using state of the art tools
• Help define and steer a fastgrowing new business at LegalZoom
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to design, build and maintain customerfacing products and interfaces
• Have 11s with engineers on your team. Build relationships by getting to know them better, cultivate their communication skills, coach them through a conflict, and partner with them to unlock new ideas to accelerate developer productivity and solve customer painpoints
• Other duties as assigned
• Occasional travel may be required as needed
• You have
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 2+ years of experience in a management role, building and motivating a diverse engineering organization fostering autonomy, innovation and learning, while holding a high bar for craft
  • 8+ years of experience in engineering, including previous experience as a handson Technical Lead
  • Hands on experience with JavaKotlin and Spring Boot and UI technologies like React or Remix, as well as a track record of delivering amazing solutions
  • Some experience with OAuth and Identity systems
  • Some experience with UI development
  • Great communication
  • Remote employees should confirm that the internet service available has adequate bandwidth to support all work processes.
  • LegalZoom is a remotefirst company and the national range for this role is ($156,000 $208,600). Actual compensation offered will depend on several factors including but not limited to: geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, andor other business and organizational needs. In addition, an annual bonus, incentive bonus andor restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package. You will also receive a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits as seen below.
    ● Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
    ● 401k, With Matching Contributions
    ● Paid Time Off
    ● Health Savings Account (HSA)
    ● Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
    ● ShortTermLongTerm Disability Insurance
    ● Plus other wellness benefits to include:
    ○ Fertility
    ○ Mental Health
    ○ One Medical
    ○ Fringe lifestyle benefits up to $250
    Join us in making a difference as we build our future and help ensure access to professional legal advice to all! LegalZoom is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. LegalZoom prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Additionally, LegalZoom is enrolled in the EVerify program. For additional information on EVerify, please visit Participation and Right to Work pages.