Software Engineering Manager

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Actionstep is a modern, adaptable law firm management platform that provides midsize law firms with tools to transform their practices into top-performing businesses. With features like document automation, client intake, workflow automation, and comprehensive legal accounting, Actionstep helps firms work efficiently, delight clients, manage profitability, grow sustainably, and oversee operations. The platform incorporates AI to streamline legal processes, improve time capture, client intake, filing, and administration, while safeguarding client and firm data. Actionstep supports various areas of law practice such as bankruptcy, family, and litigation law, and integrates with Microsoft Office 365 to enhance productivity across legal operations.

Legal Practice Management Software • Cloud Software • Accounting Software • Billing Software • Document Management Software

51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 Venture Round on 2020-09

📋 Description

• We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead teams of software developers and QA engineers. • This is a hands-on leadership role, and you are expected to plan projects, review code, and contribute where you have bandwidth. • You will work across multiple stacks of technologies and will be in charge of building and maintaining the core parts of our platform. • The ideal candidate will have extensive experience as a hands-on software engineer as well as with leading engineering teams and driving technical initiatives. • We are looking for a leader who is passionate about building innovative technologies, is customer-focused, and is able to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. • The ideal candidate will also bring experience driving improvements in process and engineering maturity, best practices, and developing a culture of excellence and delivery. • You will collaborate closely with the product team, ensuring that the engineering team is delivering solutions that exceed customer expectations and align with the product roadmap. • You will lead a team of talented and motivated engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship while driving continuous improvement in quality, productivity, and performance. • The majority of the team is based in the Toronto metro area and works remotely, and we are ideally seeking a candidate who can work remotely in a similar time zone (MT, CT, ET). • Lead teams of software developers, QA engineers, and DevOps professionals to advance and maintain a cloud-based SaaS application for legal practice management and accounting. • Introduce best practices for software development, drive improvements in process, and develop a culture of excellence in delivery. • Stand up metrics and KPIs to measure team effectiveness, and ensure the team delivers high-quality software on time and within budget. • Measure and drive improvements in product quality, change failure rate, cycle time, support escalations, and other quality metrics. • Lead important technical decisions with an eye towards scalability, modernization, and maintainability. • Provide regular updates to stakeholders across the organization. • Recruit, interview, and onboard great people to your teams. • Encourage a safe and healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging. • Engage in performance conversations and help align business objectives to career goals. • Key areas of focus include: • Level up the SDLC by adhering to Agile fundamentals • Improve performance and scalability of the platform by introducing cloud-native technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and NoSQL • Accelerate deployment and decrease cycle time by introducing CI/CD and a modern build pipeline • Migrate hosting from Azure to AWS • Lead a UX upgrade from AngularJS to React • Deliver major feature upgrades against our roadmap

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineering Manager, preferably at a B2B SaaS company • 10+ years of experience as a software developer / individual contributor • Experience with Jira, DevOps, or other project management tools • Strong knowledge of architecture patterns for modern SaaS and mobile applications • Understanding of AWS offerings such as Aurora, Lambda, and S3 • Self-starter with the ability to operate and lead when no protocol exists • Demonstrated ability to solve problems in software architecture and platform modernization

🏖️ Benefits

• We offer a fantastic and inspirational working environment! • Flexible working. • We are a team, we trust each other and we believe our best work happens when life & work is in good balance. • Wear what you like to work. • Take your birthday off. • Socials and team building events, remote and in person. • Relaxed and friendly team. • Fantastic training and development opportunities.