When you join Legora, you become part of a team that believes "good enough" isn’t good enough and that the way to win is together, by empowering lawyers to do their best work with technology that truly understands them. If you’re excited by building from first principles, working with exceptional people, and accelerating change in a high-stakes, high-impact domain—then this is the moment and the place.

We’re not just shaping the future of legal tech — we’re defining it. Ready to join us in building the intelligent future of law? The role

As an Engineering Operations Manager , you'll drive clarity, efficiency, and alignment across Engineering and cross-functional partner teams, especially Product. You'll combine strategic planning, operational excellence, and technical insight to improve how we build, scale, and deliver software solutions. By translating complex technical metrics into actionable narratives, you'll directly influence engineering strategy and ensure seamless execution of initiatives.

This role is ideal for an engineer with a passion for systems thinking and operational excellence who want to shape how engineering teams work at scale. You'll tackle organization-wide challenges—from improving development workflows to coordinating complex technical initiatives—while serving as a bridge between engineering execution and strategic goals.

What You Will Be Doing

• Strategic Alignment: Translate engineering vision into actionable plans and ensure alignment with company goals; coordinate across initiatives and align high-level stakeholders. Manage planning cycles, monitor KPIs, deliverables and logistics across engineering teams
• Operational Management: Serve as delivery lead for cross-team projects such as cloud migrations or platform upgrades. Own critical processes like incident management.
• Process Improvement: Design, implement, and continuously evolve tools and processes that enable faster, more efficient software development, Identify bottlenecks in engineering workflows and implement solutions to increase productivity.
• Communication and Stakeholder Management: Support leadership with board planning and reporting when needed. Create and deliver clear reporting on engineering metrics and progress. Facilitate effective cross-functional collaboration across Engineering and Product.

Who you are

• Generalist with 3-5 years experience with a background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field

• Nice to have: Experience building and shipping software products, familiar with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and integrations

• Proactive problem solver with a strong bias for action and passion for making engineering teams more effective, who thrives in ambiguity and solves by building scalable processes and driving engagement.

• Experience or comfort with Zapier, n8n, Python, Typescript, React, Node.js, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes is a plus

• Operational and program management experience managing complex cross-functional project delivery and incident management

• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools. Experience with quarterly planning and KPIs.

• Strong communication skills with ability to present technical concepts to various audiences

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.