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Vice President, Engineering

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Nov 2025

💰 $334,000/yr($227,000/yr – $334,000/yr)

About the role

About Rocket Lawyer We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, South America, and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 30 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered. We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!

About your role

The VP of Engineering – SMB will be responsible for leading the engineering group for Rocket Lawyer’s Solo & Micro Business (SMB) business team. This team builds and scales the products and services that enable entrepreneurs and business owners to form, manage, and grow their companies, while staying compliant and legally protected.

Reporting directly to the CTO, this leader will own the end-to-end engineering execution for the SMB business, working in close partnership with the Head of Business of SMB, product management, design, data, and AI teams. They will be responsible for driving delivery velocity, instilling engineering excellence, and scaling systems to meet customer and business needs.

This is a highly visible role where the leader will directly impact the company’s revenue and customer growth.

How you will make a difference day to day

Leadership & Culture: Build and lead a high-performing SMB engineering team (currently ~40 people across US, BR & UK), fostering a culture of accountability, velocity, and innovation.
Execution & Delivery: Ensure predictable and high-quality delivery of SMB product roadmap, while continuously improving engineering processes and outcomes.
Cross-functional partnership: Work hand-in-hand with the SMB Business Head, product, design, Ops and AI teams to align business and technology priorities.
Scalability: Architect and scale systems that support high-volume, customer-facing SMB products.
People Development: Recruit, retain, and mentor top engineering talent; develop strong technical leaders within the SMB group.
Data-driven Management: Use metrics and OKRs to measure engineering velocity, quality, and impact; drive continuous improvement.
Modern Engineering Practices: Champion best practices including AI Development tools, CI/CD, cloud-native architectures, observability, and secure development lifecycles.
AI Enablement: Collaborate with the AI team to embed intelligence into SMB experiences, leveraging Copilot and related initiatives.
Mobile Ownership: Oversee Rocket Lawyer’s iOS and Android applications, ensuring they are fast, intuitive, and seamlessly integrated into the overall platform and Copilot.

What you’ll need

10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including at least 5 years in VP/Director-level roles, with experience managing people managers and leading teams of 25+.
Proven success leading geographically distributed teams (US/BR/EU) and working in matrix business structures
Track record of building scalable, high-availability, secure cloud systems (GCP/AWS/Azure).
Experience shipping customer-facing web products at scale, ideally in SaaS, e-commerce, or legal-tech/fintech.
Experience with the latest front-end technologies and CMS systems.
Deep familiarity with high velocity, self-service Product Led Growth (PLG) motions - with proven ability to effectively collaborate with business leaders, product managers and design to deliver great customer experiences.
Data-driven mindset; strong fluency with metrics, OKRs, and business outcomes.
Excellent communication skills and executive presence; able to influence across C-suite.
Deep technical knowledge of SEO/SEM.