Engineering Manager

Were Avvoka

We build legal drafting technology for moments that matter - when the stakes are high the documents are complex and speed cant come at the cost of control. Our platform helps legal teams move faster through contracts using automation collaboration and AI - without taking judgment away from the lawyers who own the risk. We believe technology should amplify expertise not replace it.

Avvoka is trusted by leading law firms banks and global enterprises and weve grown through product strength and word of mouth alone. With headcount and revenue up over 70% year on year were scaling from a product-led success into a globally recognised legal-tech brand. Were at an inflection point: changing how the worlds most sophisticated legal teams work - and building an engineering team where good people do the best work of their careers and actually enjoy the ride.

The role

This is a new chapter for our engineering team and youll be the one who helps write it. Youll lead the Software Engineering team - front-end and back-end engineers building the platform sophisticated legal teams lean on every day - and own delivery from first idea to production. Youll shape technical direction with the CTO and sit shoulder to shoulder with the Head of Product on what we build next.

Heres the honest part: were moving the team into proper agile planning and a real sprint rhythm and thats new for us. Youll be the person who makes that shift feel natural rather than painful. Twelve months in youll be able to point at a team that ships predictably a release process that just hums and a roadmap that actually landed.

What youll do

Lead and grow

• Lead and grow a distributed team across Prague and the Philippines spanning front-end and back-end and help the next wave of tech leads find their feet.
• Set the bar for quality ownership and craft - and build a high-trust culture that genuinely works across time zones

Deliver with rhythm

• Own delivery of the product roadmap end to end so the team ships reliably and to a high standard.
• Take ownership of our deploy and release cadence - moving it off any single persons plate and onto a predictable schedule that lines up with the sprint cycle and our ongoing server infrastructure work.
• Bring agile planning to life for a team thats new to it - helping everyone settle into a sprint rhythm with estimates that are realistic and commitments that stick.
• Partner closely with the Head of Product on what gets built and in what order.

Shape technical direction

• Work with the CTO to shape where the platform goes next (Ruby ) balancing long-term architectural health with shipping value fast.

What youll bring

• Real people leadership experience - youve managed and grown engineering teams and you like doing it.
• Technical depth - you can get into architecture and code credibly (were on Ruby and ).
• A knack for introducing structure and agile ways of working without killing the teams momentum or mood.
• Strong collaboration instincts especially with product and technical leadership.
• Experience delivering in a B2B SaaS environment.
• The confidence to lead a distributed team across multiple locations and time zones.

Bonus points if you have:

• Hands-on Ruby on Rails and/or experience.
• Guided a team through the move to agile and sprint-based planning before.
• Exposure to legal tech or a similarly complex regulated domain.