Engineering Manager

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Engineering & Product

Engineering Manager at Legora, an AI-native legal tech company, leading a team to architect and deliver features for their fullstack platform. The role involves hands-on coding, technical leadership, mentoring, and ensuring code quality, security, and performance. Requires experience in fullstack/backend development with leadership experience, comfortable with Node.js, React, Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement end-to-end features across our fullstack platform
  2. Contribute directly to the codebase while supporting the growth of your team
  3. Lead architecture discussions and technical decision-making
  4. Ensure high standards in code quality, security, and performance
  5. Collaborate closely with Product and Design to ship value quickly and reliably

Skills

Required

  • fullstack or backend engineering
  • leadership experience
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • scalable product development
  • complex system ownership
  • mentoring
  • communication
  • empathy
  • clarity

Nice to have

  • frontend development
  • infrastructure

What the JD emphasized

  • 1-3 years of leadership experience
  • comfortable being hands-on while also setting technical direction
  • skilled in building scalable products and owning complex systems end-to-end
  • strong communicator who leads with empathy and clarity
  • passion for mentoring others and helping teams grow
  • confident working across backend, frontend, and infrastructure
  • curious, pragmatic, and always looking for smarter ways to build and deliver
  • gets stuff done
  • proactively and independently solves the most burning problems
  • strives in a fast-paced environment where the answers aren’t always clear and processes are few