Manager, Software Engineering Next-Gen

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NetDocuments is the worlds #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. We strive to win together through passionate hard work exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters.

NetDocuments provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team.

At our core we are dedicated to empowering our employees to drive successful business outcomes and better user experiences for our customers and partners. Our customer-centric approach and employee enablement has allowed us to enjoy many accolades including being named among the& 2024 list of Inc. Magazines 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America.

Other recent awards include:

• Five-time winner () Top Workplace in the US by the Salt Lake Tribune
• Four-time winner () Best Companies to Work for by Utah Business magazine
• Three-time winner () Top Workplace Employee Appreciation and Employee Well-Being
• Three-time winner () Top Workplace Work-Life Flexibility
• Three-time winner () Top Workplace Compensation & Benefits
• Two-time winner () National Top Workplaces
• Two-time winner () Top Workplace Innovation
• 2025 Remote Work
• 2024 Technology Industry

NetDocuments is a hybrid remote-friendly workplace. Come join our team and work inspired each day!

What Youll Do

NetDocuments has just unveiled a major redesign of the platform our customers rely on every day. The new experience is built on a foundation that captures how the matters documents and people inside a firm connect so AI can work the way legal professionals actually work. The launch is being covered as one of the most significant platform shifts in legal technology this year and our CPO has called it the deepest piece of platform engineering we have ever shipped.

This is the team behind a major piece of that experience: the next-generation web application the design system that gives it shape the surfaces customers touch every day and the integrations that bring AI-driven document understanding into the product. Were seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of the engineering teams building it.

The work is in flight. Were shipping to real customers sharpening the experience and growing the team. Youll join at a formative moment for the platform when leadership decisions technical bets and team-building habits compound for years.

This is one of the largest strategic investments NetDocuments has made. The Engineering Manager who leads this team will help shape what NetDocuments becomes and grow the leadership skills and experience that pave the way for future opportunities.

A few principles shape this work and the candidates were looking for in this role:

• Validate then scale. We ship to real users early learn fast and earn our way to production hardening as the product proves its value.
• AI-forward. The new platform is not a refreshed UI on the old product its designed around what AI makes possible.
• Customer feedback drives the roadmap. What we build next and when is shaped by what customers tell us matters most.
• Built from the ground up. Were not patching the past. Were building a new foundation that meets a higher bar for usability reliability and intelligence.

In this role you will:

Lead and develop a high-performing team

• Lead coach and develop a team of approximately 56 software engineers and software test engineers.
• Foster a culture of trust collaboration accountability and continuous improvement.
• Partner with recruiting to attract and hire exceptional engineering talent.
• Support career growth through mentorship feedback and performance development.
• Create the conditions for engineers to do their best work.

Drive delivery and execution

• Partner closely with Product Design and platform engineering teams to turn customer needs into scalable software solutions.
• Help build and execute a roadmap that balances customer-facing impact technical excellence and long-term platform durability.
• Guide your team through planning execution and delivery while holding a high bar for quality.
• Lead through ambiguity sequencing the work derisking it and adjusting as we learn from real users.

Collaborate cross-functionally

• Coordinate across multiple engineering teams contributing to a shared product vision a meaningful portion of this role is unlocking work that crosses team boundaries.
• Communicate priorities risks and progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build the partnerships that drive alignment and execution across the organization.

Provide technical leadership

• Provide technical guidance and architectural input while empowering engineers to own implementation details.
• Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD cloud-native architectures observability automated testing and scalable system design.
• Advocate for highly reliable maintainable and secure software.
• Promote best practices in usability accessibility and front-end architecture as the team builds customer-facing experiences and a design system that scales.

Shape culture and innovation

• Foster a growth mindset and a culture of continuous learning.
• Encourage experimentation thoughtful problem-solving and learning from incidents.
• Cultivate transparency ownership and customer impact across the team.
• Support knowledge sharing and technical excellence across teams.

What Youll Need to Be Successful

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of software engineering experience.
• 2 years leading engineering teams including both software engineers and software test engineers.
• Experience building and delivering enterprise-scale customer-facing software products.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices including cloud platforms CI/CD distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Proven ability to lead teams through ambiguity while balancing execution and technical quality.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing teams and delivering impactful software.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience shipping AI-native product surfaces features built around what AI makes possible not bolted onto an existing product.
• Experience leading teams that build modern web applications design systems or platform-scale SaaS products.
• Experience in legal technology professional-services SaaS or other regulated enterprise software where data sensitivity matters.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and developing future technical leaders.
• Familiarity with design-system or component-library work as a first-class engineering discipline.

What Youll Love About NetDocuments

• The People!
• 90% healthcare premiums company covered
• HSA company contribution
• 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
• 10 paid holidays
• Monthly contributions for life activities & wellness
• Access to LinkedIn learning with monthly dedicated time to explore

Compensation Transparency

The compensation range for this position is: $170000 - $200000

The posted cash compensation for this position includes on target earnings. Some roles may qualify for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are determined based on various factors specific to each candidate such as career level skills experience geographic location qualifications and other job-related considerations.

Equal Opportunity

NetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements individual qualifications without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy) national origin age physical and mental disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression military and veteran status or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. NetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success and we are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.