Director of Engineering, Everlaw
Platform Engineering
$245-310k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Oakland, CA
Unified platform for e-discovery and litigation
Open for applications
Unified platform for e-discovery and litigation
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$245-310k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Oakland, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To promote justice by illuminating truth.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you!
- You have a BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent)
- You have a sound foundational understanding of a wide range of computer science topics and concerns relating to system and software design
- You have at least 5 years of experience as a senior engineer building one or more of - developer productivity tools, highly available platform services (i.e. storage systems, pub-sub systems, search systems, caching solutions, observability solutions) and/or have expertise and experience with infrastructure and/or cloud technologies (like Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker etc)
- You have a good dynamic range that you apply to different situations - you can step back and empower, while also diving deep into the code to understand the details
- You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You have experience working with stakeholder teams (internal and/or external) in setting and collaborating on technical roadmaps
- You have experience communicating with customers articulating to them how the platform works on reliability, security and compliance matters
- You have at least 3 years of experience managing and leading senior engineers. You have experience managing the technical workstreams of software engineers and supporting them in execution
- You have at least 1 year of experience managing and leading managers - coaching and mentoring them on talent management, strategic planning and execution. You have experience managing platform engineering teams
- You have demonstrated the ability to lead an inspired, high performing and highly motivated and accountable team
- Everlaw requires all of its employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a medical or religious exemption applies. If you are hired, we will require you to prove that you have received the COVID-19 vaccine, unless you have received a medical or religious exemption
What the job involves
- In your role as ‘Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering’ you will guide the scalable, reliable and secure building of Everlaw’s platform
- You will work closely with our Product, Design, DevOps, Security Engineering and Product engineering leads to synthesize requirements and prioritize efforts
- You will lead roadmapping, resourcing and execution for critical platform areas that make it better and cheaper to develop, test and release software
- You will work closely with our Engineering Operations team to improve processes to help with goal setting, empowerment and execution across Everlaw Engineering efforts
- Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform
- We build features and functionality into the product and ensure its smooth functioning
- We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw
- At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure
- We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback
- Everlaw’s mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth
- Our company culture is open and vibrant and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals
- Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals
- You’ll spend meaningful time getting to know your direct reports and discover what excites and challenges them
- Critically observe and understand Everlaw’s platform, tooling and processes
- We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1
- Understand current and upcoming challenges and requirements from the viewpoint of multiple stakeholders
- Understand company goals and Engineering roadmaps
- Strategize, prioritize, resource and execute against our Engineering roadmap
- Actively coach your reports (both senior engineers and managers) to deliver on projects and ensure they get the right types of feedback and coaching they need to succeed in their careers
- Work with Engineering Operations, cross-functional teams, team members and managers to improve various processes that affect infrastructure growth, support, alignment, collaboration and accountability
Our take
Everlaw builds technology to help corporations, law firms and government entities solve the toughest problems in the legal industry. The company's platform includes features to help speed up legal work, freeing up time to be spent on more value-add activities. Everlaw’s clients include 8 of the top 10 class action firms in the US and is used by state attorneys general in every state in the US.
The legaltech space is growing fast. It's a big industry where a lot of money is spent, but it has been largely untouched by technology until recently, leaving a big opportunity. The company expanded to Australia and New Zealand following a partnership with Australian e-discovery provider Adio.
Everlaw has also been testing ChatGPT since it launched as it has accelerated development and integration of of generative AI. The company is also pursuing growth for its Everlaw for Good Program, seen at the 2024 Equal Justice Conference in Detroit, appointing its first program director, enhancing its generative AI offerings, and increasing investment to dismantle barriers to justice for low-income Americans and marginalised communities in need of legal representation.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$202m
SERIES D
Mar 2020
$62m
SERIES C
Total funding: $298.6m
Company benefits
- Mind & Body - Everlaw cares about the whole person, and that is underscored by our health care plan. Everlaw offers employees and their dependents private health insurance which covers 100% of employee health insurance premiums and 60% of dependent premiums.
- Investing in Your Future - Everlaw believes in building for the long-term – for both our product and our employees. Everlaw enrolls employees in a pension fund upon hire where employees contribute 4% of their salary with a company match of 4%. An additional 1% comes from the UK government in the form of tax relief.
- Family Bonding - Everlaw supports growing families by ensuring employees receive 100% of their salary for up to 10 weeks for family-bonding leave, in addition to 8 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents.
- Everlawlidays and More - When you have a group of highly skilled, highly driven truth-finders, it’s important to build in breaks for recharging. Everlaw offers employees 20 days of paid holiday per calendar year in addition to the eight public holidays in England and Wales. Everlaw also recognises four ‘Everlawlidays’ that are designated days off for the whole company. Upon their fourth work anniversary, employees are upgraded to 23 days of holiday and to 27 days on their seventh work anniversary.
- On-Site Lunches and Snacks - Enjoy delicious daily catered lunches and sample the rotating snack and beverage selections in our London office.
- Never Stop Learning - We are committed to Everlawyers’ professional growth and encourage employees to pursue the right learning and development opportunities for wherever they are in their journey. With an annual Learning & Development stipend of £1,600, Everlawyers can attend conferences, obtain certifications, join classes and meet with career coaches.
- Giving Back - We are committed to supporting our local communities so we build in time for you to give back. In addition to time off for company-sponsored volunteer events, employees get four paid hours per quarter to volunteer at any charity recognised by the HMRC.
- Creating Community - Everlaw is filled with empowered, passionate problem solvers who like to have fun. From team dinners to holiday parties, Everlaw hosts optional company-wide bonding events regularly. Additionally, each department is given a monthly budget for activities and events planned by you and your colleagues. Events have included go-karting, escape rooms, trapeze classes and intramural sports.
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
AJ Shankar
(CEO)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at TheFind (acquired by Facebook).
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