Director of Engineering at Lupl

Director of Engineering

Ideal candidates will be located in the US Eastern or UK time zones. 

About Lupl: Lupl is an open industry platform for legal matters in development with the support of a global community of legal departments and law firms. For a user, it is mission control for your legal matters. Its “bring your own system” technology synchronizes all of the people, documents, information, knowledge, communications and systems for legal matters into one secure space. It is currently in beta and will launch later in 2021.  

Working at Lupl: Lupl itself is the result of a unique collaboration between an international group of law firms and legal departments. And working at Lupl provides an opportunity for collaboration, challenge, and reward. Join an exciting and dynamic startup aiming to support a rapidly changing legal industry, while remaining dedicated to maintaining a diverse workplace that values and celebrates differences. You'll work with a highly energetic, entrepreneurial, and international team who are passionate about our platform and our company.   

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life, and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone at Lupl. Please see our D&I statement below. 

Position summary:  Lupl is looking for a Director of Engineering to help build and grow our open industry platform for legal matters.  You’ll be our first in-house technical hire and will serve as the primary technical resource for our platform including responsibility for coordinating a world class team of ~30 developers in the US and Romania.  We’re looking for someone who can work across our internal teams, partners, and vendors to ensure our technical strategy is aligned to deliver on our vision of a more open and connected legal world. 

You Will:  

• Set a technical vision for our platform enabling us to scale and rapidly grow our business.
• Own the technical roadmap and architectural strategy for the Lupl platform.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior management on key technical decisions.
• Serve as technical resource and trusted advisor to the development teams.
• Establish engineering standards to ensure a continuous move towards optimization and automation.
• Evaluate technical partnerships to ensure the organization is using the appropriate technology, software, and third-party tools.

We’re Looking for Someone Who Has:  

• 7+ years of experience enabling product-led organizations to scale highly-performant platforms for web and mobile offerings.
• Hands-on experience developing externally-facing products, preferably in B2B, cloud-based applications.
• Ability to provide technical mentoring and architectural guidance to engineering teams.
• Experience leading integration frameworks and API architecture for SaaS platforms.
• Strong understanding of security and compliance standards as they relate to technical implementation.
• Highly collaborative, comfortable working across multiple teams and timezones to deliver results in the face of ambiguity.
• Track record of leading innovation through technology-driven organizations.
• Experience with multi-environment infrastructure and DevOps CI/CD best practices.
• Significant exposure to early/growth-stage start-up environments.

Nice to Haves:  

• Direct experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience within a highly-regulated industry.
• Operated a SOC 2 / ISO Compliant Platform.
• Experience with microservices architectures.

If you don't meet 100% of these qualifications but you know you have what it takes to rock this job, we encourage you to apply! 

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   

Physical demands:  

The employee is frequently required to access, input and retrieve information from a computer to produce typed/written copy, free of errors, without the assistance of another person. The employee is regularly required to read, speak, hear and communicate clearly and effectively.  

Work environment:  

Lupl is primarily a distributed team. This role may involve an in-office and/or work-from-home environment. Lupl uses standard office equipment that includes, but is not limited to, computers, telephones, multi-function devices (print/copy/scan), books and files. While performing the duties of this job within an office, the employee may be exposed to various components of an office environment such as florescent lighting, pollen, dust, recycled air, VDTs, semi-enclosed areas, central heating and air conditioning and office noise.  

Safety expectations:  

Exercise care in the course of work to prevent injuries to oneself and co-workers  

Diversity, equity and inclusion statement: We strive to create an inclusive and rewarding environment that allows our people to thrive both professionally and personally.. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at the company will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. The firm does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, sex, gender identity, gender expression, age, medical condition, sexual orientation, sexual preference, marital status, citizenship, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including but not limited to, recruitment, selection, job assignment, compensation, discipline, promotion, termination and access to benefits and training.  

General sign-off: Specific duties for this position will be assigned; the requirements may vary from time to time, depending on the needs of the company. In addition to being able to perform the demands, a Lupl employee will be required to meet personal and education, physical, medical, safety and other requirements established by the company for this position.