Manager, Software Engineering, CoCounsel Application

About the role

In this opportunity as Engineering Manager, you will:

• Lead & Inspire: Manage a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and growth.
• Architect & Build: Oversee the design and implementation of UI and backend solutions using modern frameworks and technologies, stepping in to code when necessary.
• Strategize & Collaborate: Work with cross-functional teams—product managers, designers, and other leaders—to define product strategy, set technical direction, and deliver innovative features.
• Drive Execution: Own the team roadmap and project lifecycle, ensuring that initiatives move from ideation to successful production launches.
• Mentor & Develop: Coach junior engineers, support professional development, and cultivate an environment where everyone can excel.
• Measure Impact: Define success metrics to track and evaluate project outcomes, using data-driven insights to guide future decisions.
• Shape Technology: Provide guidance on architecture, design, and best practices for front-end and back-end development.
• Recruit & Grow: Play a pivotal role in hiring top engineering talent and expanding the team’s capabilities.

Responsibilities

Manage a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and growth.

Oversee the design and implementation of UI and backend solutions using modern frameworks and technologies, stepping in to code when necessary.

Work with cross-functional teams—product managers, designers, and other leaders—to define product strategy, set technical direction, and deliver innovative features.

Own the team roadmap and project lifecycle, ensuring that initiatives move from ideation to successful production launches.

Coach junior engineers, support professional development, and cultivate an environment where everyone can excel.

Define success metrics to track and evaluate project outcomes, using data-driven insights to guide future decisions.

Provide guidance on architecture, design, and best practices for front-end and back-end development.

Play a pivotal role in hiring top engineering talent and expanding the team’s capabilities.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with meaningful individual contributor work in the last 2–3 years and a proven track record leading the development of scalable, web-based solutions.

Experience with modern UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, or similar), TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.

Comfortable with AI technologies, including GenAI concepts like prompt engineering, agentic system design, Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM orchestration frameworks.

2+ years of managing engineering teams, with success in coaching, mentoring, and nurturing talent.

Ability to navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and deliver impactful results in a fast-paced environment.

Adept at driving product innovation and ensuring that technical decisions align with broader business goals.

Qualifications

BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Proven success in recruiting, managing performance, and cultivating a positive team culture.

Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, including vector databases, model serving and deployment pipelines, and cost/latency optimization for LLM-powered products.

Skills

Technical Expertise: Hands-on software engineering experience, leading the development of scalable, web-based solutions.

Front-end & Back-end Mastery: Experience with modern UI frameworks, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.

AI Familiarity: Comfortable with AI technologies, including GenAI concepts.

Team Leadership: Experience managing engineering teams, coaching, mentoring, and nurturing talent.

Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and deliver impactful results in a fast-paced environment.

Strategic Mindset: Adept at driving product innovation and ensuring that technical decisions align with broader business goals.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role).

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.

Career Development and Growth: Comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans to include market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.

Additional Benefits: Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Make a Real-World Impact: Help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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