Aderant is a global industry leading software company providing comprehensive business management solutions for law firms and other professional services organizations with a mission to help them run a better business. We are motivated by a collective desire to drive the legal industry to the forefront of innovation. With over 2,500 clients around the world, including 95 of the top AmLaw 100 firms, we are changing the outside perception of the legal sphere; where there was once resistance to modernization, we are creating a culture that embraces new ideas and technology.
At Aderant, the “A” is more than just a letter. It is a representation of how we fulfill our foundational purpose, serving our clients. It embodies our core values and reminds us that to achieve success, every day must start with the “A”. We bring the “A” to life by fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and personal growth. We encourage our diverse teams to bring their whole selves to work – ideas, experience, and passion – to drive our mission forward.
Our people are our strength.
Software Development Manager
Role Overview
We are hiring an Engineering Manager with deep technical expertise to lead a team building and modernizing a business-critical platform. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who is strong in TypeScript, understands mobile and API client impacts, thinks architecturally, and can lead delivery in cloud-native environments (especially AWS, with optional experience in hybrid or multi-cloud setups).
What You Will Own
- Lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering core platform capabilities across APIs, mobile apps, desktop clients, and other integrated surfaces.
- Drive modernization initiatives, focusing on migrating towards a TypeScript-oriented service architecture (e.g., Node-based frameworks and monorepo tooling where applicable).
- Partner with Product, QA, and platform teams to define sequencing, reduce delivery risk, and maintain release predictability.
- Establish strong technical standards for service design, code quality, observability, and secure-by-default implementation.
- Support multi-region production operations and incident response practices with clear operational ownership.
- Coach engineers, strengthening team capability while maintaining technical depth in leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical leadership: Set direction for TypeScript services, API contracts, and long-term platform architecture.
- Execution leadership: Convert ambiguous initiatives into scoped, phased plans with measurable milestones and managed dependencies.
- Cloud and systems design: Guide implementation choices across AWS (e.g., messaging, queue-based workflows, managed data stores) and related hybrid integrations where relevant.
- Mobile-aware platform delivery: Ensure backend and API decisions account for mobile authentication flows, token lifecycle behavior, and coordinated releases across clients.
- Security and compliance partnership: Lead readiness for security assessments, remediation planning, and enterprise mobility or policy requirements.
- Operational excellence: Build observability and reliability practices (dashboards, alerting, health checks, post-incident learning loops).
- People management: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while building a high-trust, high-accountability team culture.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles with direct people management responsibility.
- Strong hands-on background in TypeScript, client side and backend/API engineering.
- Proven experience leading architectural modernization or migration from legacy systems to modern service platforms.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in AWS.
- Strong architectural judgment across scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery trade-offs.
- Experience managing cross-team delivery with product, QA, and platform stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Node.js ecosystems, API frameworks (e.g., NestJS), React, monorepo tooling (e.g., Nx), and related build and quality tooling.
- Experience in hybrid or multi-cloud environments (e.g., API gateways, edge routing, cross-cloud networking).
- Experience with enterprise SSO/authentication patterns and regional deployment concerns.
- Track record improving incident response, observability maturity, and release governance.
