Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Development
Manage, mentor, and coach a team of software engineers (typically 6–12 direct reports).
Conduct regular 1:1s, career development conversations, and performance reviews.
Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineering talent.
Performance Management
Set clear goals, expectations, and success metrics for individuals and the team.
Run structured performance reviews with fairness, consistency, and clarity.
Provide timely, constructive feedback and coaching to help engineers grow
Recognize and reward high performers while addressing underperformance with empathy and rigor.
Create and maintain career growth paths that align with Filevine’s engineering competency framework.
Use data and observation to make decisions on promotions, compensation, and role changes.
Execution & Delivery
Drive execution of projects from planning through delivery, ensuring quality, scalability, and reliability.
Collaborate with Product Management and Design to refine requirements and work with tech leads to translate them into technical plans.
Set priorities and remove blockers for your team.
Technical Leadership
Maintain a deep understanding of the technical stack to guide resource planning.
Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, including testing, code review, and CI/CD.
Champion engineering excellence, scalability, and security across the codebase.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with Product, Design, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment and efficient workflows.
Communicate team progress, risks, and needs to leadership and stakeholders.
Culture & Process
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and psychological safety.
Continuously improve engineering processes, agile practices, and team rituals.
Qualifications
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a formal leadership/management role.
- Ability to contribute with hands-on coding up to 50% of the time
Proven experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Strong technical background in modern web application development (experience with C#, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, AngularJS, Svelte, SQL Server, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc.).
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated success in scaling teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex projects.
Comfortable using performance data to guide decisions about promotions, compensation, and career growth.
Familiarity with agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
Experience running structured performance reviews and providing actionable feedback.
Skilled at identifying and addressing performance issues early, with empathy and fairness.
Ability to recognize and reward high performance, while supporting underperformers with development plans.
Experience working in SaaS or legaltech platforms.
Background in scaling distributed systems or enterprise-grade software.
Prior experience managing managers or leading multiple squads.
Familiarity with performance management frameworks (e.g., OKRs, Objectives & Key Results, or competency matrices).
Preferred Skills
Skills Required
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years in a formal leadership/management role
- Ability to contribute with hands-on coding up to 50% of the time
- Proven experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Strong technical background in modern web application development (experience with C#, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, AngularJS, Svelte, SQL Server, Redis, ElasticSearch)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated success in scaling teams, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex projects
- Comfortable using performance data to guide promotions, compensation, and career growth
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and modern software development practices
- Experience running structured performance reviews and providing actionable feedback
- Skilled at identifying and addressing performance issues early, with empathy and fairness
- Ability to recognize and reward high performance and implement development plans for underperformers
- Experience working in SaaS or legaltech platforms
- Background in scaling distributed systems or enterprise-grade software
- Prior experience managing managers or leading multiple squads
- Familiarity with performance management frameworks (e.g., OKRs, competency matrices)
Filevine Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Filevine and has not been reviewed or approved by Filevine.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as covering the major bases (medical, dental, vision) and is often framed as decent quality. In some cases, premiums and copays are portrayed as relatively favorable, suggesting tangible value from the plans.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is positioned as a standard, clearly offered benefit. The presence of parental leave alongside disability coverage signals baseline family-support provisions typical of growth-stage tech employers.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is sometimes framed as fair or reasonable relative to role expectations, with technical roles in particular appearing closer to market-aligned ranges. This creates pockets where pay is perceived as competitive even if not consistently top-of-market across the company.
Filevine Insights
What We Do
Filevine is case management software built for and inspired by real attorneys. As a fully-featured suite of tools, it comes ready to manage every part of a moving case. Assign tasks, upload files or images, monitor staff productivity, and communicate with your client directly from within their case file. Our software is built on the truth that every law firm functions differently. That’s why Filevine is so customizable. Build new case-type templates, design automatic workflows, and receive customized reports on a schedule that fits your needs. Accessing your information is never a problem, because Filevine is hosted on The Cloud. To ensure security, your law firm’s data is protected through state-of-the-art encryption on redundant servers. All you need to get started is an internet connection and your favorite web browser. Learn more at filevine.com.
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