Manager, Software Development Engineering, CoCounsel FDE

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional project teams and guide scalable, secure AI/software architecture and delivery.
• Influence AI methodologies, MLOps and LLMOps practices, platform testing, monitoring, and debugging.
• Hire, manage, coach, and mentor engineers; develop team performance and structure.
• Translate business needs into reusable AI frameworks and coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Own delivery across projects, remove impediments, guide project leads, and manage budgets where applicable.
• Collaborate with Product, Project Management, and Technical Operations; carry customer feedback into the product roadmap.

Candidate qualifications

• 10+ years in software or solutions engineering and 2+ years in people management or team leadership; the role remains hands-on.
• Experience leading forward-deployed, field, or solutions engineers, including hiring, performance, career development, and team structure.
• Customer-facing discovery, architecture presentations, technical decision-making, and stakeholder relationship experience.
• Track record building and demonstrating rapid proofs of concept and pilots, then creating repeatable delivery patterns.

Technical qualifications

• Strong Python and hands-on AWS expertise, including Bedrock AgentCore, CDK, EKS, and ECR.
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines, Docker, SQL/Flyway migrations, and Cumulus or a similar enterprise deployment platform.
• Direct LLM-agent delivery experience, including solution design, implementation, integrations, security guardrails, evaluation, quality testing, observability, and infrastructure.
• Legal industry or legal technology familiarity is a strong plus.

Workplace

• The employer describes a flexible hybrid working environment for office-based roles, with work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to eight weeks per year.

Compensation

• Ontario base compensation range is CAD 140,600–190,600; no compensation cadence is specified. The role may also be eligible for an annual bonus.

Recruitment process

• The posting may be used for current openings or future vacancies. The employer uses AI to support recruitment assessment, with human review of decisions.