Engineering Manager - Foundations

The role

You will lead a team of backend engineers responsible for core backend services and systems. You will architect high-scale services, drive technical excellence, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of backend engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers at all levels
• Own team health to keep the team efficient and unblocked
• Drive code quality, security, and system design standards
• Design and implement high-scale core backend services and APIs
• Contribute directly to the codebase
• Lead architecture discussions and technical decision-making on foundational systems
• Collaborate with product engineering teams
• Review code and mentor engineers
• Champion best practices in backend engineering, service design, and continuous improvement

Required qualifications

• Seasoned full-stack / backend engineer
• 1–3 years of leadership experience
• Strong communicator
• Deep experience building and operating high-scale distributed systems and core platform services
• Ability to solve problems proactively and independently
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Node.js, Azure, AWS and Kubernetes

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.