What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineering Manager position at LegalZoom?
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, attorney-led 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 problem-solvers, we can’t wait to meet you.
Where we work
In an effort to foster a better work-life balance, LegalZoom is committed to a remote-first 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.
This hybrid position will work remotely as well as onsite in our LA or SF Bay Area office.
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 customer-obsessed approach to solving problems.
You will
Lead and advocate for better development practices through CI, automated testing, and operational efficiency
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 fast-growing new business at LegalZoom
Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to design, build and maintain customer-facing products and interfaces
Have 1-1s 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 pain-points
Other duties as assigned
Occasional travel may be required as needed
You have
Bachelor's 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 hands-on Technical Lead
Hands on experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, as well as a track record of delivering amazing solutions
Experience with OAuth
Great communication
Experience building and consuming APIs
Remote employees should confirm that the internet service available has adequate bandwidth to support all work processes.
LegalZoom is a remote-first company and the national range for this role is ($156,000 - $231,800). Actual compensation offered will depend on several factors including but not limited to: geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, and/or other business and organizational needs. In addition, an annual bonus, incentive bonus and/or 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)
Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
Plus other wellness benefits to include:
Fertility
Mental Health
One Medical
Fringe lifestyle benefits up to $250
Salary : $156,000 - $232,000