Litera - Senior Director - Engineering

[Company overview]

Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving over 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recently selected for Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees are driven, energetic, passionate, and have the ability to make a direct impact on the future of the company.

[Role overview] Litera is looking to hire a senior engineering leader for our Ahmedabad, India office, to lead and grow, what will become, its largest R&D location of 200 - 250 engineers over the next 18 months. You will directly oversee engineering teams in Ahmedabad and work closely with your counterparts and colleagues in Ahmedabad, the United States, Ukraine and Australia in setting our products- technology direction and fast track its execution to meet Litera's aggressive growth plans.

This is a unique opportunity for a dynamic and passionate technology leader to join a rapidly growing company and make significant contributions to the design and delivery of our products. We have high engineering standards on real-time controls software, and we want you to help make us better.

[A day in the life]

- Manage the people on a large engineering team to keep them aligned and focused on achieving the team's goals

- Drives the design, strategy and execution of software development projects to support product roadmaps

- Lead technology architecture and development as per product needs

- Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple SCRUM teams

- Monitor, and continuously update, team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Ensure a consistent, regular process for assessment of goals and improvement of deliveries

- Lead many SCRUM teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features and fix prior mistakes

- Collaborate with Product Managers on new products and new features

- Implement data driven approach to execution to drive transparency and accountability across all stakeholders

- Identify market gaps, product/client requirements or issues and work with geographically distributed cross-functional teams such as product, customer success and sales to define detailed plan and execute it with agility and speed

- Support the ongoing engineering needs of our existing customers and prospects while balancing product goals alongside engineering driven projects

- Create an impact on our overall software development approach, setting engineering, road maps, partnering with product management and product marketing across different geographical locations

- Strategic thinker with abilities to create or work on 90, 120, 180-day plans designed along with leadership team for self and teams.

[About you]

- 16+ years of technology including 6+ years of management experience in various elements of full-stack software development front end, back end, data and insights and hands- on technical design & implementation experience preferably in SaaS products

- Works closely with VP, Engineering and other senior leadership to develop and implement world class Engineering practices.

- Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate product and business strategies

- Excellent understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) with experience guiding teams through planning, development, and rollout using best in industry agile practices

- Prior experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of manager, senior engineers simultaneously working on multiple projects and technologies

- Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills at high levels

- Possess innate customer service skills including the ability to be empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful, and conscientious

- Strong relationship management, strategizing, project management, problem solving, and change management skills

- Ability to work with local & global stakeholders in a matrix environment

- Comfortable interacting and presenting in front of C-level executives

- Thrive in fast-changing environments and ambiguity while being execution-oriented, hands-on, pragmatic, and focused on results

- Motivated problem solver who can accurately document and communicate issues

- Prior experience working with cloud enablement of monolithic applications and experience with Domain driven design and microservices based architecture.

[What sets us apart?]

- Opportunity to work directly with the Managing Director - Litera India as well as the Chief Technology Officer and other Executives

- Opportunity to help create and lead a strong team of engineers and lead innovation and creation of best in class products

- Participate in helping shape the contours of the software development and influence outcomes

- Strong participation in engineering strategies and product deliveries

- Opportunity to work with cross geography teams and travel as necessary

- Participate in creating a fun, smart, passionate multi-cultural and merit-driven team

- You will be challenged and encouraged to broaden your and your team's skills including access to personal development courses and learning platforms

- Regular social & philanthropic events

- Market leading health benefits, generous PTO and holiday policies, such benefits in line with best in peer industry