Engineering Manager (Hands On)

About Robin AI

Robin AI is on a mission to revolutionize the legal industry by simplifying contracts and making law accessible to everyone. We utilize cutting-edge machine learning and contract software, enhancing traditional legal services and bringing together experts in engineering, AI, and law. Robin AI has recently raised $26m in Series B funding and has seen an impressive 5x revenue growth in the last 12 months.

We're looking for passionate, resourceful, and collaborative people to join Robin. If you're motivated about leveraging technology to make essential business services more accessible, come join us!

About This Role

Robin AI is expanding our Engineering team into New York; this role is a unique opportunity to help establish our Engineering presence there! This role incorporates both hands-on and Team/People Management elements, roughly on a 60/40 split. You will work closely with Product and other stakeholders to help build technology that changes the way companies all over the world do deals by developing ground-breaking products that transform the way legal teams operate.

With our ambitious product vision, you will have ample opportunities to grow your career as an Engineering Manager, scaling our engineering team and shaping the future of our engineering processes. You'll make meaningful decisions on our technical direction and work with engineers to implement them. You'll drive key initiatives for our function chapters and identify how we can do things better. This role offers the chance to implement real change at a fast-growing legal tech startup that's transforming an industry.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a Product-focused squad of around 5-6 Engineers; promote growth through feedback, help each team member achieve their potential, and support your team through their journey at Robin.
• Play a key hands-on role in a product-focused squad. Make key design and implementation decisions, writing high-quality, well-tested code that solves challenging problems.
• Champion a collaborative engineering culture where people feel empowered to push boundaries, take ownership, and drive real change.
• Develop Backend services and GraphQL APIs using Django, Flask, and similar Python frameworks, and Frontend applications using React and Typescript.
• Scale our Engineering team through inclusive hiring. Spearhead our initiative to diversify our talent pipeline by building relationships with coding bootcamps, network groups, and beyond.
• Shape our onboarding processes and mentorship program to help set our engineers up for success, develop their skills, and create learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• Previous experience leading a Product-focused team; ideally in a start-up/scale-up environment.
• Background designing and implementing web applications and APIs, utilizing a variety of tools and technologies.
• Extensive Python/React hands-on experience.
• You have a passion for developing the careers and skills of your team. You take the time to understand your team's career goals and what is important to them. You foster a great engineering culture by ensuring trust, honesty, and openness within your team.
• In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development, and deployment).
• (Nice to have) Familiarity with search algorithms and RAG-based information retrieval concepts.

Compensation At Robin AI

• Salary: $200k - $300k
• Generous Equity package: When you help build Robin AI, everyone deserves to be an owner.

Please Note: If your salary expectations look a little different from that outlined, we’d still be keen to hear from you if this is a role that excites you and one that you think you could really excel in.

Robin AI cannot offer sponsorship in the US but we can provide visa transfer/extension.

Benefits At Robin AI

At Robin AI, we put humanity first - we believe a great product is inextricably linked to a great internal community.

We’re a quickly growing, cross-functional team that values supporting each other's development. As part of the team, you can expect:

• 15 days PTO, excluding national holidays, cultural leave, and birthday leave
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Coverage
• Long-term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k Retirement
• Flex spending and HSA
• Technology to enable you to work seamlessly from the office or home
• Focus on continual learning and development

Robin's flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Robin employees have the flexibility to work from home 2/3 days per week.

Robin is deliberate about the culture we are building and is committed to creating an inclusive environment that attracts the best talent from diverse backgrounds. Whether it’s helping curate the Robin Spotify playlist, discussing gender equality in tech, or taking a meditation break with our holistic health plan, we want you to find your space within the Robin community.

From our offices in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA you’ll have access to all of the WeWork amenities including co-working space, bike lockers, pool tables, table tennis, free barista-made coffee, and free beer in the evenings.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Robin AI

We want to break diversity, equality, and inclusion barriers within the tech industry. In building our team, we value the unique contributions everyone can bring. We encourage applications from everyone who wants to be a part of our mission. We value everyone’s religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, neurodivergence, education, nation of origin, age, pregnancy and maternity, or veteran’s status.

We want our hiring process to let you show off your best self. If you think any accommodations may be helpful for the interview process, please let your recruiter know.