Legal Direct - Engineering Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of our rapidly growing product lines in the Legal vertical. You will be responsible for optimizing performance, integrating systems, and driving technical change across web and backend services. Your role will involve evaluating current systems, proposing new architectural components, and managing their implementation and rollout. You will also scale existing services, reduce technical debt, write and review code daily (JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Python), maintain high quality through automated tests and CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders on roadmapping and sequencing initiatives. Additionally, you will communicate clearly during incident analysis and provide regular feedback to cultivate a culture of ownership and experimentation.
Must have:
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and a frontend framework (React, Vue)
- Solid PHP experience for building and maintaining production APIs/services
- Experience designing and shipping interfaces (REST, GraphQL, webhooks, message queues)
- Data analytics fluency (SQL, dashboards, data-driven decisions)
- Proven track record of shipping and scaling production features end-to-end
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical plans and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders
Good to have:
- Comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with marketing and performance-marketing concepts
- Experience with compliance frameworks (PII, PHI, HIPAA, HITECH)
- Exposure to experimentation frameworks and A/B testing
Perks:
- Health insurance options (medical, dental, vision)
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Well-being coaching services
- Voluntary benefits (home, auto, pet insurance)
- Discounted legal and financial services
13 skills required
Job Details
Description
About the Role
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to own one of our fastest‑growing product lines in the Legal vertical. You’ll work across web and backend services, optimizing performance, integrating disparate systems, and steering technical change that unlocks the next growth phase.
If you thrive on bringing clarity to a complex domain, enjoy connecting systems, and like seeing your work move the business needle, we’d love to talk.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Delivery
Evaluate current systems and emerging business needs, propose and design new architectural components, and shepherd them from Proposal → implementation → rollout. Scale existing services for higher throughput and reliability while paying down technical debt
Technical Execution
Write and review code daily (JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Python). Keep quality high through automated tests and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines.
Road‑mapping
Work with product and business stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and sequence initiatives that cut across multiple systems. Translate ideas into actionable engineering plans.
Incident Communication
When issues arise, orchestrate root‑cause analysis and share clear, timely updates with stakeholders.
Mentorship & Culture
Set crisp technical expectations, give regular feedback, and cultivate a culture of ownership, accountability, and experimentation without excessive process.
Qualifications
Must‑Have
- Engineering Management: You must have experience managing engineering teams for at least three years.
- Full‑stack proficiency:
- Frontend – modern JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one major framework (React, Vue, or similar).
- Backend – solid PHP experience building and maintaining production APIs or services. Familiarity with Python is a plus.
- Systems integration chops: designed and shipped interfaces (REST, GraphQL, webhooks, message queues) that stitch multiple services together.
- Data analytics fluency: comfortable defining metrics, writing SQL, interpreting dashboards, and using data to guide technical decisions.
- Delivery track record: shipped and scaled production features end‑to‑end, managing technical debt pragmatically.
- Cross‑functional savvy: translate business requirements into technical plans and communicate technical capabilities and limitations in business language.
Nice‑to‑Have
- Comfortable shipping applications and services on a Docker + Kubernetes stack.
- Familiarity with marketing & performance‑marketing concepts (attribution, funnel KPIs, ROAS) and the analytics platforms that support them (GA, GTM, SEM).
- Experience with compliance frameworks (PII, PHI, HIPAA, HITECH).
- Exposure to experimentation frameworks and A/B testing.
How We Work
- Own the Outcome – take initiative and drive features over the finish line.
- Move with Purpose – iterate quickly, but invest when it matters.
- Communicate Clearly – surface risks, trade‑offs, and progress early.
- Raise the Bar – propose improvements and inspire excellence.
- Leverage AI – use AI tools to code, test, analyze, and learn faster.
Sound like a fit? Let’s start a conversation and explore how you can help shape what comes next.
About Internet Brands:
Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Internet Brands® is a fully integrated online media and software services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health, Automotive, Legal, and Home/Travel. The company's award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands' powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company's continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Temasek. For more information, please visit www.internetbrands.com.
Internet Brands and its wholly-owned affiliates are an equal opportunity employer.
Notice to California residents: you can find information about our privacy practices, on: https://www.internetbrands.com/work-with-us/cpra
Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Internet Brands® is a fully integrated online media and software services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health, Automotive, Legal, and Home/Travel. The company's award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands' powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company's continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Temasek. For more information, please visit www.internetbrands.com.
Internet Brands and its wholly-owned affiliates are an equal opportunity employer.
Notice to California residents: you can find information about our privacy practices, on: https://www.internetbrands.com/work-with-us/cpra
In addition to our awesome culture, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our benefits include health insurance options such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical and dependent care, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and life and AD&D insurance. We also provide a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match, paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, commuter benefits as well as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and well-being coaching services. In addition, employees can take advantage of voluntary benefits such as home, auto and pet insurance, and discounted legal and financial services. For more details, feel free to inquire during the interview process.
At Internet Brands, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the compensation for this role to have a range of $125K to $175k and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.
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