The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.
About Syllo
Syllo is on a mission to transform litigation. Our product is a unified litigation platform that enables lawyers and paralegals to safely harness the power of language models and agentic AI throughout the litigation life cycle. Since going to market, we have gained a diverse group of enterprise customers, including some of the biggest law firms and corporations in the country, and we are quickly expanding. By reducing the expense of litigation industry-wide, we aim to improve access to high-quality representation and promote the alignment of legal outcomes with merit.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager who will foster a collaborative, high-performing environment where engineers can grow, learn, and thrive.
Responsibilities
- Mentor, coach, and support the career growth of 8-10 engineers. You will conduct regular 1-on-1s, provide actionable feedback, and foster a culture of ownership and psychological safety.
- Participate in personnel review, including the shaping of the performance review process and structure.
- Improve engineering processes (scrum meetings, code reviews, testing) to increase velocity without sacrificing quality.
- Partner with Product Managers to translate roadmaps and designs into concrete execution plans. Be responsible for allocating work among engineers, monitoring progress, and facilitating collaboration.
- Work with the leadership team to define engineering staffing strategy and team structure, and participate in hiring and recruiting.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in engineering management, leading teams of 5 or more in a fast-paced environment, preferably remote.
- Core software engineering skills, including proficiency in languages such as Python and Ruby.
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software development lifecycle.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with product management teams.
Salary Range: $190,000-$230,000 USD plus health insurance and equity.
United States - Remote Pay Range
$190—$230 USD
Similar Jobs
Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
Leads and manages an 8–10-person storage engineering team responsible for MongoDB’s transactional read/write path, durability, availability, performance, indexing, and storage architecture. Owns the roadmap, customer escalations, cross-team initiatives, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and execution. Partners with Replication, Query, Sharding, Atlas, and other teams on distributed systems and workload-management improvements.
Top Skills:
C++ConsensusDistributed SystemsGoMongoDBMongodb AtlasOltpReplicationRustStorage EnginesTransactional Systems
Consumer Web • Healthtech • Professional Services • Social Impact • Software
Lead the Ranking & Relevance team of software and machine-learning engineers. Own retrieval, ranking, recommendation, and personalization systems that match patients with therapists. Drive the transition from filter-based matching to outcome-aware machine learning, establish shared marketplace objectives, improve experimentation and model monitoring, and build evaluation and drift-detection capabilities. Hire and develop engineers, set technical standards, and partner with product, data science, payer, and provider engineering teams in a sensitive healthcare domain.
Top Skills:
Ai Coding ToolsFeature PipelinesInformation RetrievalLearning-To-RankMachine LearningOnline ExperimentationPersonalization SystemsRecommendation Systems
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Healthtech • Software
Lead two Payments engineering teams through platform modernization, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic, improving observability, performance, reliability, and operational health. Manage engineering managers and individual contributors, guide technical direction with senior engineers, own third-party payment integrations, and partner with Product and Commercial on payment capabilities and priorities. Drive cross-team initiatives, develop talent, and balance product delivery with foundational architecture investments.
Top Skills:
Agentic WorkflowsAi-Assisted Development ToolingData ScienceObservability And InstrumentationPayment PlatformsPayment Vendor Integrations
What you need to know about the Chicago Tech Scene
With vibrant neighborhoods, great food and more affordable housing than either coast, Chicago might be the most liveable major tech hub. It is the birthplace of modern commodities and futures trading, a national hub for logistics and commerce, and home to the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. This diverse blend of industry influences has helped Chicago emerge as a major player in verticals like fintech, biotechnology, legal tech, e-commerce and logistics technology. It’s also a major hiring center for tech companies on both coasts.
Key Facts About Chicago Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 245,800; 5.2% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: McDonald’s, John Deere, Boeing, Morningstar
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, fintech, software, logistics technology
- Funding Landscape: $2.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Arch Venture Partners, MATH Venture Partners, Jump Capital, Hyde Park Venture Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
