Engineering Director – Platform

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LawVu is the premier legal workspace for in‑house legal teams, unifying matter, contract, and spend management. Headquartered in Tauranga since 2015, LawVu’s platform leverages AI to automate routine tasks, surface actionable insights, and empower legal teams to focus on strategic work.

The Engineering Director – Platform will drive and own the platform capabilities that underpin LawVu’s product development to support and empower the product streams. Your primary mandate is enabling the business to scale and grow, through a world‑class engineering platform that accelerates feature delivery, ensures reliability, quality, and drives innovation.

You will work with the other engineering directors (Data & Operations) and work / partner closely with the Principal Engineers.

Areas of Responsibilities

1. Product Development Partnership

• Collaborate closely with product value streams leads to ensure the platform supports product requirements as an enabler.
• Embed platform capabilities within product streams workflows, ensuring seamless integration of shared services.
• Act as a technical advisor in product planning sessions, providing guidance on platform constraints, roadmap alignment, and implementation strategies.

2. Process & Team Enablement

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

What sets us apart

Why LawVu?

At LawVu we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer the opportunity to get onboard a growth company early and the opportunity to participate in LawVu’s success through our incentive scheme. LawVu has rapidly expanding offices and our work environment encourages continuous improvement and future career development.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables us to better understand and serve customers and innovate successfully. From the moment you join, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

Our team is only as strong as the culture it is built upon. Our core values are :

Inspire and Delight

We take pride in what we do and go the extra mile to create experiences that inspire and delight our customers.

Move Swiftly

We do what we say we will do, moving fast to get the right things done to make an impact.

No challenge is too big. With courage we embrace the challenge, learn from our mistakes and share the knowledge.

Take Ownership

With every decision and behaviour, however big or small, we take ownership of its impact on our business.

Back yourself. Back others

We strive to be supportive, honest people who respect each other and build a high level of trust to perform as a winning team.

Bring your Woo

Woo is what energises us, brings us joy and makes us unique. We seek to create a safe environment that fosters bringing your whole self so you can thrive.

We are constantly working towards making LawVu one of the best places to work, for everyone. LawVu is committed to providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion. We will ensure this by fostering a workplace where people feel safe to be themselves, are able to do the best work of their lives and fulfil their potential. We believe by bringing together our diversity of thoughts and backgrounds, we will develop a world class product for the equally diverse customers we serve.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you would like to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Software Development

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