Engineering Manager, Platform

Your Impact

The Manager, Engineering leads, manages, and oversees the engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining the company's SaaS products, ensuring efficient delivery of high-quality software solutions. They manage a team of engineers, overseeing project requirements, task delegation, and ensuring excellence in project deliveries.

What You'll Do

• Project Leadership: Determines project requirements, develops work schedules, and delegates tasks to meet project goals.
• Team Management: Leads a team of engineers, ensuring the highest standards in product delivery. Facilitates cross team communication and coordination, liaising with various stakeholders including management, product managers, and product designers.
• Reporting: Prepares progress reports and delivers presentations to relevant stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identifies risks and develops contingency plans as needed.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Experience in SaaS environments and familiarity with cloud-based technologies and architectures.
• Experience in leading, managing, and scaling engineering teams.
• Possesses a technical background in software development, ideally with hands-on experience in building SaaS products. Skills in API and Data Model Design and Implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems
• Hands on experience with Kotlin, Java, C#, and Python in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a diverse team of engineers. Strong interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of addressing technical, personnel, and project-related challenges.

Even Better If You Have…

• Experience using Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy
• Experience selecting and extending third party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid
• Experience with NoSql data stores, data caches, and other non-relational data storage technologies
• Experience with Federated GraphQL, providing a unified API access across different systems
• Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka and understand the principles of event-driven architecture
• Experience with Protobuf and gRPC for defining service interfaces and efficiently serializing structured data.

 

 

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Perks of DISCO 

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k) 
• Competitive salary plus RSUs
• Flexible PTO 
• Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company