{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"130399e2d54b2ac0f97ff555","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/130399e2d54b2ac0f97ff555","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/130399e2d54b2ac0f97ff555","title":"Assistant Software Engineering Manager","description":"Manager, Software Engineering – AI Assistant\r\nLehi, Utah, United States; Remote - US\r\nNetDocuments is a leading cloud-based content management platform that supports legal professionals. We are building the next generation of the AI Assistant, part of ndMAX, and we need an Engineering Manager to lead this team.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nThe NetDocuments AI Assistant is our flagship legal AI product, delivering secure, native AI that helps users analyze documents, draft content, and take action through natural language in familiar tools. The Engineering Manager will lead the AI Assistant engineering team through the next chapter of growth.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nLead and develop a high performing team\r\nLead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 5 to 6 software and test engineers.\r\nFoster a culture of trust, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.\r\nPartner with recruiting to attract and hire exceptional talent with applied AI and machine learning experience.\r\nSupport career growth through mentorship, feedback, and performance development.\r\nCreate the conditions for engineers to do their best work and be the escalation path for blockers.\r\nDrive delivery and execution\r\nPartner closely with Product, Design, and platform engineering teams to turn customer needs into scalable software solutions.\r\nHelp build and execute a roadmap that balances customer impact, technical excellence, and long-term platform durability.\r\nGuide the team through planning, execution, and delivery of the Assistant's agentic AI capabilities while maintaining a high bar for quality.\r\nLead through ambiguity, sequence work, de-risk it, and adjust as we learn from real users and evolve the AI landscape.\r\nCommunicate capacity, priorities, and delivery risks proactively as a core member of the engineering, product, and design triad.\r\nCollaborate cross functionally\r\nCoordinate across multiple engineering teams contributing to a shared product vision.\r\nCommunicate priorities, risks, and progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\r\nBuild partnerships that drive alignment and execution across the organization.\r\nProvide technical leadership\r\nProvide technical guidance and architectural input while empowering engineers to own implementation details.\r\nChampion modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, cloud-native AWS architectures, observability, automated testing, and scalable system design.\r\nAdvocate for highly reliable, maintainable, and secure software with strong observability and a proactive security stance.\r\nBring sound judgment to building on large language models and agentic systems, including evaluation, prompt and context design, tool integration, cost and latency management, and safe rollout.\r\nShape culture and innovation\r\nFoster a growth mindset and continuous learning culture.\r\nEncourage experimentation, thoughtful problem solving, and learning from incidents.\r\nCultivate transparency, ownership, and customer impact across the team.\r\nSupport knowledge sharing and technical excellence across teams.\r\nWhat You'll Need to Be Successful\r\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\r\n7+ years of software engineering experience.\r\n2+ years leading engineering teams, including both software engineers and test engineers.\r\nWorking familiarity with modern AI, including large language models and agentic systems, and sound judgment about applying them in production software.\r\nExperience building and delivering enterprise-scale, customer-facing software products.\r\nStrong understanding of modern software development practices, including cloud platforms, CI/CD, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.\r\nProven ability to lead teams through ambiguity while balancing execution and technical quality.\r\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\r\nDemonstrated success building high-performing teams and delivering impactful software.\r\nWhat Will Make You Stand Out\r\nTrack record of shipping AI-native or agentic product surfaces at scale.\r\nDepth in the applied AI stack: LLM application development, retrieval-augmented generation, AI system evaluation, and managing model cost, latency, and quality trade-offs.\r\nExperience leading teams that build platform-scale SaaS products, extensibility platforms, or developer tooling.\r\nExperience in legal technology, professional services SaaS, or other regulated enterprise software where data sensitivity and auditability matter.\r\nTrack record of mentoring engineers and developing future technical leaders.\r\nBenefits\r\n90% healthcare premium coverage and HSA company contribution.\r\n401(k) match at 4% with immediate vesting.\r\nFlexible PTO (typically 3–4 weeks a year).\r\n10 paid holidays.\r\nMonthly contributions for life activities & wellness.\r\nAccess to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore.\r\nCompensation Transparency\r\nThe compensation range for this position is: $180,000 – $200,000.\r\nEqual Opportunity Employer\r\nNetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\r\nNetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among its employees is critical to its success, and it is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Netdocuments","rawCompany":"netdocuments","city":"Lehi","state":"UT","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-09T00:42:36.161Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Assistant Software Engineering Manager","description":"Manager, Software Engineering – AI Assistant\r\nLehi, Utah, United States; Remote - US\r\nNetDocuments is a leading cloud-based content management platform that supports legal professionals. We are building the next generation of the AI Assistant, part of ndMAX, and we need an Engineering Manager to lead this team.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nThe NetDocuments AI Assistant is our flagship legal AI product, delivering secure, native AI that helps users analyze documents, draft content, and take action through natural language in familiar tools. The Engineering Manager will lead the AI Assistant engineering team through the next chapter of growth.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nLead and develop a high performing team\r\nLead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 5 to 6 software and test engineers.\r\nFoster a culture of trust, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.\r\nPartner with recruiting to attract and hire exceptional talent with applied AI and machine learning experience.\r\nSupport career growth through mentorship, feedback, and performance development.\r\nCreate the conditions for engineers to do their best work and be the escalation path for blockers.\r\nDrive delivery and execution\r\nPartner closely with Product, Design, and platform engineering teams to turn customer needs into scalable software solutions.\r\nHelp build and execute a roadmap that balances customer impact, technical excellence, and long-term platform durability.\r\nGuide the team through planning, execution, and delivery of the Assistant's agentic AI capabilities while maintaining a high bar for quality.\r\nLead through ambiguity, sequence work, de-risk it, and adjust as we learn from real users and evolve the AI landscape.\r\nCommunicate capacity, priorities, and delivery risks proactively as a core member of the engineering, product, and design triad.\r\nCollaborate cross functionally\r\nCoordinate across multiple engineering teams contributing to a shared product vision.\r\nCommunicate priorities, risks, and progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\r\nBuild partnerships that drive alignment and execution across the organization.\r\nProvide technical leadership\r\nProvide technical guidance and architectural input while empowering engineers to own implementation details.\r\nChampion modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, cloud-native AWS architectures, observability, automated testing, and scalable system design.\r\nAdvocate for highly reliable, maintainable, and secure software with strong observability and a proactive security stance.\r\nBring sound judgment to building on large language models and agentic systems, including evaluation, prompt and context design, tool integration, cost and latency management, and safe rollout.\r\nShape culture and innovation\r\nFoster a growth mindset and continuous learning culture.\r\nEncourage experimentation, thoughtful problem solving, and learning from incidents.\r\nCultivate transparency, ownership, and customer impact across the team.\r\nSupport knowledge sharing and technical excellence across teams.\r\nWhat You'll Need to Be Successful\r\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\r\n7+ years of software engineering experience.\r\n2+ years leading engineering teams, including both software engineers and test engineers.\r\nWorking familiarity with modern AI, including large language models and agentic systems, and sound judgment about applying them in production software.\r\nExperience building and delivering enterprise-scale, customer-facing software products.\r\nStrong understanding of modern software development practices, including cloud platforms, CI/CD, distributed systems, and scalable architectures.\r\nProven ability to lead teams through ambiguity while balancing execution and technical quality.\r\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\r\nDemonstrated success building high-performing teams and delivering impactful software.\r\nWhat Will Make You Stand Out\r\nTrack record of shipping AI-native or agentic product surfaces at scale.\r\nDepth in the applied AI stack: LLM application development, retrieval-augmented generation, AI system evaluation, and managing model cost, latency, and quality trade-offs.\r\nExperience leading teams that build platform-scale SaaS products, extensibility platforms, or developer tooling.\r\nExperience in legal technology, professional services SaaS, or other regulated enterprise software where data sensitivity and auditability matter.\r\nTrack record of mentoring engineers and developing future technical leaders.\r\nBenefits\r\n90% healthcare premium coverage and HSA company contribution.\r\n401(k) match at 4% with immediate vesting.\r\nFlexible PTO (typically 3–4 weeks a year).\r\n10 paid holidays.\r\nMonthly contributions for life activities & wellness.\r\nAccess to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore.\r\nCompensation Transparency\r\nThe compensation range for this position is: $180,000 – $200,000.\r\nEqual Opportunity Employer\r\nNetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\r\nNetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among its employees is critical to its success, and it is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-08-09T00:42:36.161Z","dateModified":"2026-08-09T00:42:36.161Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Netdocuments","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Lehi","addressRegion":"UT","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"130399e2d54b2ac0f97ff555"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/130399e2d54b2ac0f97ff555"}}