AI/ML Engineering Manager

About Rocket Lawyer   We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, South America, and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 30 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered.   We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!

About the Role

Rocket Lawyer is seeking an experienced, passionate and hands-on Engineering Manager with expertise in AI/ML who wants to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a talented agile team. As part of a cross-functional team consisting of a product manager, designer, 4-6 software engineers and QA engineers, you will be actively managing one or more engineering teams to build new features for Rocket Copilot, Rocket Lawyer’s AI legal assistant.

 We value a fun, collaborative, team-oriented work environment, where we celebrate our accomplishments.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the work output of one or more engineering teams working on AI/ML features for Rocket Lawyer
• Work closely with your team and cross-functional partners to prioritize work for your team
• Participate in sprint planning, scrum meetings, and sprint retrospectives
• Assign work to engineers on your team based on capabilities and business priorities
• Make direct technical contributions by creating technical designs, reviewing code, and writing code as needed
• Resolve blockers to keep your team moving forward
• Maintain a high standard of technical quality on your team
• Coach and mentor your team to perform at the highest level
• Participate in hiring and performance management decisions for your team and other teams
• Clearly communicate your team’s goals, priorities and accomplishments to peers and leadership

Requirements

• Experience managing teams of 4+ engineers
• Experience building AI/ML products using technologies such as LLMs, neural networks and others
• 10+ years experience in high-growth technology environments
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (Scikit Learn, XgBoost, Pytorch etc)
• Experience building APIs with some of the following technologies: Java, Spring, Node, Python
• Experience with distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building SaaS products
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience developing internationalized software

Benefits & Perks

• 25 days holiday plus banks holidays 
• 10 days sick pay
• 5% employer contribution Pension and 3% employee, 8% in total 
• Private health & dental insurance (after 2 years service)
• Cycle to work 
• Flexi time
• Discounted gympass
• Employee referral program 
• Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates

All Locations £78,000—£108,000 GBP

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