Engineering Manager

About Legal 500

Legal 500 was founded by John Pritchard in 1987 as the original clients’ guide to law firms, the first of its kind. It is now a data-driven, AI-optimised research platform which benchmarks, informs and connects providers and users of legal services in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our research and data are trusted and relied upon by corporate clients globally as an essential part of the process, both of instructing law firms with new mandates, and when reviewing existing mandates or panels.

We exist to empower both buyers and sellers in the international legal marketplace to make better decisions and have improved outcomes for their organisations. This is achieved by leveraging a trusted, comprehensive research process with a unique, vast, proprietary and constantly updated set of client-supplied data, unrivalled in the market.

On the supply side of the legal market, every year Legal 500’s team of over 150 researchers, technologists, data analysts, journalists and content specialists collate and review 60,000+ data-submissions from law firms and conduct interviews with thousands of leading law firm partners. On the demand side, Legal 500 analyses confidential data from 300,000+ commercial law firm clients to benchmark law firms and lawyers by practice area; industry; jurisdiction; as well as by proprietary client satisfaction metrics, NPS®, and other qualitative and quantitative criteria.

Legal 500 is the only source of this depth of global research and data on law firms, lawyers and their clients.

Purpose of the Role

We are looking to bring on board an Engineering Manager to lead, manage and inspire a high-performing engineering team. This role combines technicalleadership and people management to deliver high-quality products, ensure operational excellence, and support the professional growth of our engineers.

Key Responsibilities

People & Team Leadership

• Engineer line management
• Lead, mentor, and coach engineers to achieve professional growth and high performance
• Build a strong, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development plans
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent

Project & Delivery Management

• Oversee the full software development lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of features and products
• Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into technical deliverables
• Establish and refine development processes, ensuring best practices in agile, DevOps, and CI/CD are followed
• Monitor project progress, resolve issues, and adjust priorities as needed

Technical Direction & Quality

• Provide technical guidance, architectural oversight, and strategic input
• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, and scalability standards
• Promote engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, and documentation
• Drive continuous improvement in processes, tools, and workflows

What we're looking for

• Extensive experience within the software development realm with some solid experience in a leadership or management role
• Strong knowledge of modern software development practices, programming languages, and cloud platforms (we're not expecting our Engineering Manager to be hands on in the code, but we are looking for someone who comes from this world)
• Experience managing agile development teams (ideally of 10-15+ people)
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Experience working in an SME or startup environment, particularly in a growth and/or change phase

Other information

We operate a hybrid working policy, with 3 days a week at our office on Fleet Street (Central London) and 2 days remote.