Manager, Software Development Engineering- Search & IR

What you'll do

• Own the Content Tools engineering roadmap, lifecycle, reliability, and operational practices, including retrieval evaluation and CI/CD.
• Set platform standards and contribution workflows for distributed teams, including tool versioning, governance, and discoverability.
• Manage and develop a team of 8 engineers and collaborate with Product, TR Labs, and CoCounsel Engineering.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in technical leadership or engineering management.
• Experience designing and operating API-first systems used by multiple teams, and governing shared infrastructure in a distributed development model.
• Proficiency in Python; strong fundamentals in API design, testing, CI/CD, information retrieval, and production operations.

Nice to have

• Experience with agentic AI tools or protocols such as MCP; legal technology or other high-stakes information retrieval domains.
• Search and retrieval infrastructure or evaluation frameworks, including IR metrics and CI/CD quality gates.

Pay

$118,400 USD - $219,800 USD (base salary); $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD (base salary)

Tools

Python, AWS, MCP, Elasticsearch, Vespa, OpenSearch

AI focus

Builds APIs and tools that provide legal content to AI agents; includes evaluating retrieval quality, supporting agentic workflows, and targeting more than 50% of code written with AI assistance.