[Hiring] Vice President of Software Engineering @Magna Legal Services

Role Description

Magna Legal Services is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the teams responsible for building, operating, and evolving the software platforms that support our legal-services businesses. This leader will oversee software engineering people, processes, and execution across Magna's full suite of product offerings, shared platform capabilities, and emerging AI-enabled solutions.

Reporting directly to Magna's Chief Technology Officer, the Vice President of Software Engineering will:

• Translate business and product priorities into disciplined engineering plans.
• Strengthen delivery and operational performance.
• Build an organization capable of scaling across multiple products and lines of business.
• Partner closely with the CTO, Product, Marketing, Operations, and go-to-market leaders.

This is a hands-on executive leadership role for someone who can operate at both the organizational and technical levels, deeply engaged in:

• Design reviews.
• Technical tradeoffs.
• Incident resolution.

The Vice President of Software Engineering must be able to travel to Magna’s Philadelphia-area offices approximately 10% of the time.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive software-engineering experience, including 5+ years leading multiple teams or product areas.
• Demonstrated success building and leading high performing software engineering organizations, including managing managers.
• Track record of delivering complex, business-critical software while improving execution discipline, quality, and predictability.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems incrementally while continuing to meet active business and customer commitments.
• Ability to lead effectively across a varied technology portfolio.
• Strong organizational judgment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with senior architects and principal-level technical experts.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Requirements

• Experience delivering AI- or machine-learning-enabled products or meaningfully integrating AI into the software-development lifecycle.
• Experience building software subject to HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar regulatory and client security requirements.
• Experience in a multi-product, multi-business-line, professional service, legal services, private-equity-backed, or acquisition-oriented environment.

Benefits

An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to:

• Relevant education.
• Qualifications.
• Certifications.
• Experience.
• Skills.
• Seniority.
• Geographic location.
• Performance.
• Travel requirements.
• Revenue-based metrics.
• Any contractual agreements.
• Business or organizational needs.

Company Description

Magna Legal Services is a trusted nationwide partner to law firms, corporations, insurance carriers, and government agencies, delivering comprehensive legal support at every stage of a case.