Senior Manager of Engineering

We offer a flexible working policy that supports a healthy balance between personal and professional well-being. This role requires in-office presence on Tuesdays & Thursdays to collaborate, connect, and learn from peers - while also maintaining the flexibility for meaningful work-life balance.

You will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for supporting the cloud-scale document management platform iManage builds for the legal industry, serving both law firms and corporate legal departments. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, while shaping how your team adopts AI to write better code faster. You'll also be a key technical voice for the community of 250+ technology partners that integrate with iManage, understanding their demands on the iManage Cloud platform and co-building solutions with them.

This role requires someone who thrives in building engineering best practices, mentoring a diverse team through growth and out of capability gaps, and championing a culture where critical thinking, agility, and AI-first thinking are core to how we work.

• Leading People and Building Culture
  • Building and leading a high-performing engineering team of 4 to 5 engineers across different seniority levels where people feel comfortable taking risks, trying new approaches, and learning through it
  • Developing your team through regular 1-on-1s, coaching, hiring for growth, and feedback that matters; having honest conversations when someone's struggling and working together on the path forward
  • Practicing and championing AI-native development, modeling how you use AI day-to-day to write, test, and debug code, and helping engineers treat AI as a core part of how the team thinks and builds, not a bolt-on to existing habits
  • Building a team where feedback flows both ways and happens regularly, not just in review cycles; helping people understand when to adjust course
  • Staying current with industry trends, emerging technical practices, and how our people are evolving; bringing this learning back to elevate the whole team
• Technical Leadership and Architecture
  • Driving the engineering architecture for a cloud-scale SaaS platform for legal document management, making decisions that hold up in production
  • Interacting with iManage's ecosystem of 250+ technology partners, understanding and addressing their demands on the iManage Cloud platform
  • Co-building solutions with partners, especially in the AI domain, to extend what the platform can do for our shared customers
  • Owning technical decisions that balance business needs, team capabilities, and long-term sustainability of the platform; explaining tradeoffs in terms of cost, quality, performance, and team readiness
  • Being hands-on when it matters most; diving into architectural discussions, code reviews for critical decisions, design documents, and complex problems
  • Driving adoption of engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing strategies, code review discipline, design documentation, and observability
• Partnership and Execution
  • Collaborating with product, engineering leadership, and ecosystem partners to understand technical requirements and surface where partnership becomes competitive advantage
  • Translating business priorities and roadmap into technical plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation; driving toward those plans with accountability and agility
  • Communicating technical progress, blockers, and decisions clearly to both technical and business stakeholders; presenting options and trade-offs so others can make informed choices
  • Building cross-team alignment on shared technical problems; developing engineers who can work across team boundaries

• 8+ years building software or services at scale, with 3+ years leading a team of engineers in a hands-on technical manager role
• Deep technical expertise in backend systems, distributed architecture, or related areas; comfortable with current technology stack (Java, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.); and a track record of making pragmatic technical decisions under uncertainty
• Experience…