Backend Engineering Lead / Engineering Manager

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The Role

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Job Description:

At Epiq AI Labs, we’re an AI-driven platform for legal discovery and knowledge management. Our mission is to transform how law firms and legal service providers manage complex litigation, process documents, and uncover actionable insights. By empowering our partners with cutting-edge technology, this AI-driven platform enables the discovery of hidden connections, accelerates decision-making, and ultimately drives better legal outcomes. 

The Role  

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Backend and Frontend Engineers tasked with rapidly developing and deploying AI-driven solutions on the new platform. In this role, you will work closely with the leadership of Epiq AI Labs to translate strategic goals into actionable execution plans, resource allocations, and team objectives. This collaboration will enable you to turn high-level visions into tangible deliverables, supporting your team’s ability to execute effectively on technical goals that align with both business and user needs. 

Your day-to-day may include aligning team resources with project priorities, facilitating cross-functional integration of backend and frontend components, and ensuring that AI features are built with scalability and performance in mind. 

Core Responsibilities 

· Work with Epiq AI Labs leadership: Collaborate closely with leadership to translate strategic goals into tactical execution plans, aligning team resources, priorities, and timelines with business objectives. 

· Lead and develop a cross-functional engineering team: Manage and mentor a team of backend and frontend engineers, providing guidance, and performance feedback. 

· Oversee AI feature integration: Partner with AI researchers and engineers to implement AI-powered features, ensuring seamless interaction between backend systems and frontend user experiences. 

· Coordinate architecture and scalability efforts: Guide the team in building scalable backend systems and data structures, ensuring that new AI-driven capabilities integrate smoothly with the platform. 

· Promote best practices and high standards: Uphold coding standards, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of quality within a fast-paced CI/CD environment to ensure robust, production-ready code. 

Technologies We Use 

· Backend languages: Python, C#, Java 

· Frontend stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, React 

· Database systems: Lucene, PostgreSQL, Qdrant 

· Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes 

· CI/CD and build tools: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Gradle 

What We Require 

· Proven experience in engineering management or technical leadership: Track record of successfully managing cross-functional engineering teams in a backend and frontend-focused environment. 

· Technical expertise in backend and frontend systems: Hands-on experience with scalable API design, frontend frameworks, distributed systems, and CI/CD practices. 

· Educational background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. 

· Strong organizational skills: Ability to plan, resource, and manage projects effectively, coordinating with leadership to align team efforts with leadership goals. #LI-KS1

The Compensation range for this role is 160,000.00 to 220,000.00 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus. 

Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors:

  • Location-based market rate for the role

  • Your abilities in relation to the job specification

  • Performance during screening and interview

  • Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location

Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Click here to learn about Epiq's Benefits.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.  Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
6,282 Employees
Year Founded: 1988

What We Do

Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal industry and corporations, takes on large-scale, increasingly complex tasks for corporate counsel, law firms, and business professionals with efficiency, clarity, and confidence. Clients rely on Epiq to streamline the administration of legal department and business operations, class action and mass tort, eDiscovery, regulatory, compliance, restructuring, and bankruptcy matters. Epiq subject-matter experts and technologies create efficiency through expertise and deliver confidence to high-performing clients around the world. Learn more at www.epiqglobal.com.

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