Actionstep

Engineering Director- Accounting Platform

Actionstep  •  $200k - $225k/yr  •  Denver, CO (Hybrid)  •  1 hour ago
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Job Description

Actionstep is a pioneer in the development and sale of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, specializing in the delivery of Legal Practice Management software. We are a fast growing, dynamic business with a global customer base of more than 30,000 and a team of over 300 in the USA, Australia, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Latin America.

The Actionstep Engineering team contributes to developing, maintaining, and running Actionstep through the delivery of industry leading technology, operations, and analysis. Actionstep Engineering consists of squads of cross-discipline software engineers, analysts and product experts who work collaboratively to enhance Actionstep software for our customers.

How we build

Every team at Actionstep builds with AI as part of the development lifecycle. Engineers and product managers decide what gets built, write the specs, and review and own what ships, while AI agents do much of the building and testing. We treat the harness, i.e. the tooling, context and review checkpoints our teams build with, as a product in its own right. We measure delivery on one scoreboard that reads throughput beside quality, so speed never gets counted without quality next to it.

Our platform runs on TypeScript services, React micro-frontends and a shared design system, on AWS across multiple regions.

Our Product Development teams work across North America, the UK and Asia-Pacific. Each team works within one time-zone band, so its members share a working day.

Engineering Director -- Accounting Platform

Actionstep is building the next generation of its platform for law firms, with AI built in from the start. The work is greenfield, and it sits at the core of how firms run their business, so accuracy, auditability and trust matter as much as speed. We build with AI-driven software development, i.e. AI writes most of the code, and team members decide what gets built, judge whether the result is right, and improve the system that builds it.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You lead a new and growing team of engineers, designers, QA and accounting specialists, and you act as its engineering manager as you build it out.

Location -- Denver, Colorado (hybrid).

In this role, you will:

  • Own delivery -- you own the plan, keep it honest, and explain progress, trade-offs and risk plainly to the executive team.
  • Set the technical direction -- you work with the tech lead and senior engineers on the decisions that are expensive to reverse, including how AI agents act safely on financial data.
  • Run an AI-first build -- you lead the spec-driven way of working, measure it, and make it faster as we learn.
  • Hire and grow the team -- you build the team and set the standards it works to.
  • Work across teams -- you agree scope and dates with the teams the platform depends on, such as permissions, approvals and workflow.

Other Responsibilities:

Undertaking any other reasonable duties as required

Requirements

Experience & Qualifications:

  • Financial systems experience -- you have led engineering for accounting, billing, payments or other systems where the numbers have to be right, including regulated or audited money flows.
  • Greenfield delivery -- you have taken a new platform from first commit to paying customers, and kept the plan honest along the way.
  • SaaS experience -- you have built and run multi-tenant SaaS products.
  • Led AI PDLC adoption -- you have moved an engineering org to AI-driven development and can show what changed, with data. You use AI coding tools yourself and have led a team that builds with them.
  • Distributed team leadership -- you have led teams across time zones, including contractors.
  • Clear executive communication -- you can explain trade-offs and delivery risk plainly to senior executives.

Desirable:

  • Experience with legal, trust or professional-services accounting software is a strong plus.
  • Leadership qualities:

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Reports To:

  • CTO

INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS

· Engineering leadership and engineering teams

· Product and design

· Executive team

· Accounting subject-matter experts, finance, implementation and customer teams

Benefits

We have a fantastic and inspirational working environment!

  • Robust medical, dental, vision offerings
  • 401K with company match
  • Flexible working and PTO
  • Take your birthday off
  • Frequent team building events
  • Fantastic training and development opportunities
  • 200-225k salary
Actionstep

About Actionstep

Actionstep is a law firm management platform with practice management and legal accounting solutions that connect, organize, and automate all the work that happens at midsize law firms. Our solutions are built to adapt to a firm’s unique strengths and goals, supporting firms to modernize and build a firm advantage in the legal marketplace.

With connected features, like matter management, client intake, document management and automation, time tracking, billing, legal accounting, and business reporting, Actionstep equips firms to do their work efficiently, delight clients, manage firm profitability, grow and oversee your firm. 

Don't let technology define the way you work, discover how Actionstep adapts to your law firm's way of working: www.actionstep.com

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Year Founded
2004
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