Engineering Manager, Platform (Hiring Immediately)

Your Impact

The Manager, Engineering leads, manages, and oversees the engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining the company's SaaS products, ensuring efficient delivery of high-quality software solutions. They manage a team of engineers, overseeing project requirements, task delegation, and ensuring excellence in project deliveries.

What You'll Do

• Project Leadership: Determines project requirements, develops work schedules, and delegates tasks to meet project goals.
• Team Management: Leads a team of engineers, ensuring the highest standards in product delivery. Facilitates cross team communication and coordination, liaising with various stakeholders including management, product managers, and product designers.
• Reporting: Prepares progress reports and delivers presentations to relevant stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identifies risks and develops contingency plans as needed.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
• Experience in SaaS environments and familiarity with cloud-based technologies and architectures.
• Experience in leading, managing, and scaling engineering teams.
• Possesses a technical background in software development, ideally with hands-on experience in building SaaS products. Skills in API and Data Model Design and Implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems
• Hands on experience with Kotlin, Java, C#, and Python in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate a diverse team of engineers. Strong interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of how to design and develop from a security perspective.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of addressing technical, personnel, and project-related challenges.

Even Better If You Have…

• Experience using Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy
• Experience selecting and extending third party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid
• Experience with NoSql data stores, data caches, and other non-relational data storage technologies
• Experience with Federated GraphQL, providing a unified API access across different systems
• Experience with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka and understand the principles of event-driven architecture
• Experience with Protobuf and gRPC for defining service interfaces and efficiently serializing structured data.

Authorization to Work in the U.K.: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship now or in the future. DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas.

About DISCO

DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.

Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.