Head of Software Engineering

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Magna Legal Services

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

💰 Debt financing on 2020-02

Consulting • Insurance • Logistics

Magna Legal Services is a U. S. -based provider of end-to-end litigation support services for law firms, insurance companies, corporations, and government agencies. The company offers court reporting and virtual depositions, record retrieval, service of process, investigative and language services, social media surveillance, jury research and consulting (JuryConfirm, JuryEvaluator, JuryScout), trial presentation and graphics, and related trial support. Magna also produces legal conferences and CLE/CE programs and provides nationwide scheduling and online tools to support litigation from discovery through trial.

📋 Description

• Lead Magna's software engineering organization across multiple products and lines of business • Develop and coach engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors • Assess and evolve organizational structure, team capacity, role clarity, and leadership coverage • Own workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, career development, engineering budget, and vendor and contractor relationships • Translate company, product, and business-line priorities into engineering roadmaps, staffing plans, and execution commitments • Establish operating cadences for planning, prioritization, estimation, delivery, release management, and executive reporting • Improve predictability, speed, and transparency of software delivery while maintaining quality and risk controls • Identify dependencies, resource constraints, delivery risks, and organizational blockers, and drive them to resolution • Define and monitor engineering measures related to delivery, quality, reliability, security, and team health • Ensure teams own software throughout its lifecycle, from definition and design through deployment, monitoring, support, incident response, and improvement • Guide modernization of legacy applications and integration of acquired businesses and platforms • Raise standards for design, code quality, automated testing, observability, documentation, maintainability, and production readiness • Strengthen practices across APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and secure software development • Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory obligations, including HIPAA, SOC 2, and client security audits • Partner with Product, Design, business, operations, go-to-market, and executive leaders • Communicate plans, tradeoffs, risks, progress, and outcomes to executive and nontechnical stakeholders • Advance responsible use of AI-assisted development tools • Evaluate and deliver AI and large-language-model capabilities such as transcript summarization, deposition indexing, and medical record review • Establish evaluation, security, privacy, reliability, human oversight, and monitoring discipline for AI-enabled features • First-year goals include predictable planning and release cadence, clear organizational design, progress on Recordtrak and Maggie, and at least one AI-enabled capability in production

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive software-engineering experience, including 5+ years leading multiple teams or product areas • Demonstrated success building and leading high performing software engineering organizations, including managing managers • Track record of delivering complex, business-critical software while improving execution discipline, quality, and predictability • Strong understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations • Experience modernizing legacy systems incrementally while continuing to meet active business and customer commitments • Working knowledge of Microsoft technologies (C#, .NET, Azure), modern web, cloud, and data technologies • Strong organizational judgment regarding team design, capacity, prioritization, and technical investment • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical, operational, and commercial audiences • Ability to partner effectively with senior architects and principal-level technical experts while maintaining clear decision rights and accountability • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience • Preferred: experience delivering AI- or machine-learning-enabled products or integrating AI into the software-development lifecycle • Preferred: experience building software subject to HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar regulatory and client security requirements • Preferred: experience in multi-product, multi-business-line, professional service, legal services, private-equity-backed, or acquisition-oriented environments, including integrating acquired technology platforms and teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Total compensation package includes salary range consideration based on education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs • Remote work arrangement within the United States • Meaningful work and opportunities to grow careers