Engineering Tech Lead, Migration Platform

CARET brings the latest in technology and automation to over 10,000 legal and accounting firms, empowering highly skilled professionals to refocus their expertise on what truly matters. CARET harnesses powerful and secure practice management, document automation, and payment processing to take firms, professionals, and their clients further.

Our team-defined values guide how we show up for each other, for our partners, and for our customers:

- We succeed together.

- We embrace progress.

- We care big.

- We create space.

About the role

We're building a team to make migration a core capability of the CARET Legal platform.  This team will create an AI-accelerated migration platform that  helps law firms move onto CARET with greater speed, confidence, and predictability. This is a  ground-up platform build , and  we're hiring the Engineering Tech Lead who will own its architecture end to end .    The role is ideal for an engineer who wants to turn complex migration work into  a  repeatable,  scalable, AI-enabled  platform capability.

You will own the technical design across the whole migration pipeline: extracti ng  data from  customer  source systems,  assessing integration and synchronization options, building  a transformation library, orchestrati ng migration workflows,  automat ing assessment, and  defining  go-live paths that  make onboarding smoother for customers . You will  evaluate possible approaches with an unbiased  technical lens,  set the build sequence, make the hard architectural calls, and stay hands-on. You will partner closely with a technical product manager  on  roadmap  priorities and lead  a  focused  team  through design, implementation, and delivery .

What  you'll   do

- Own the architecture across extraction, transformation, and orchestration - the full migration pipeline.

- Translate technical strategy into buildable platform increments alongside the team.

- Develop deep knowledge of the CARET Legal data model and how it  maps to application behavior, workflows, and customer outcomes.

- Gain an in-depth understanding of legal practice management and accounting, including the workflows, customer problems, and data relationships CARET Legal solves and supports.

- Design for correctness and scale, migrating legal practice data across many firms and source systems  with a high bar for accuracy, traceability, and customer trust .

- Build  repeatable go-live  patterns  that make migrations faster, more predictable, and easier for customers to adopt .

- Shape problems into buildable work with the  technical  product manager,  making disciplined tradeoffs to keep delivery focused and predictable.

- Apply AI thoughtfully  to accelerate migration assessment, mapping, validation, and engineering workflows where it improves speed, quality, and scalability .

- Lead  the  team and  set   a high technical  bar , including  clear  documentation and handoff practices that keep the  platform  maintainable and easy to extend .

- Be the technical point of contact for operations and migrations ,  align ing technical decisions with migration planning and customer delivery needs.

What  we’re looking for

- 8+  years building data-intensive backend systems, including  experience leading architecture across a team.

- A unique ability to reverse engineer application systems by performing forensic analysis of their underlying data structures and storage.

- Deep experience  building reliable data pipelines and ETL/ELT systems, including extraction , change data capture, transformation, and orchestration at scale.

- Hands-on strength in a modern data stack , including SQL, a transformation framework such as  dbt , and cloud orchestration such as Microsoft Fabric or Azure Data Factory .

- A  strong  bias for correctness ,  observability , and traceability when data  quality, lineage, and edge cases  require disciplined engineering .

- Ability to  operate as a hands-on tech nical lead : setting direction, raising the engineering bar, and contributing code.

- Pragmatism about scope and sequencing , with the judgment to pair a strong platform foundation with practical AI and automation where each creates durable value .

Nice to have

- Experience  leading data migration or system-to-system consolidation initiatives.

- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications and systems.

- Experience  in  legal, fintech, healthcare, or another domain with  high standards for correctness, confidentiality, and compliance.

- E xperience b uilding a new platform or team from the  ground up .

- Experience applying AI or  LLMs  responsibly   to accelerate data mapping, assessment, or transformation.

How the team works

- You’ll join a  focused team inside our product and engineering organization, built to move quickly on a strategic  platform capability .   We work in short, fixed -length cycles with lightweight planning, clear ownership, and disciplined tradeoffs that keep delivery focused and predictable .   The team has meaningful influence over architecture, sequencing, and implementation , with the autonomy to shape a durable migration  capability for CARET Legal .

Location

- This role is remote and open to candidates based in the United States or Canada.

Benefits:

- Flexible PTO

- Medical, Dental, Paid Sick Days, Vision, and Supplemental Coverage

- Flexible Spending Account

- Health Savings Account

- 401(k) match

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! We value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about having a significant impact and shaping the foundations of a rapidly growing product, please apply!

Equal Employment Opportunity: CARET is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

The compensation information below is provided in compliance with job posting disclosure requirements.

Pay range: $170,000-$190,000 USD . Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including the position, location, individual qualifications, market finances, and other operations business needs.

Depending on the position, compensation may also include commission, bonuses, etc. Potential for bonuses is based on company performance and potential for merit increases is based on performance.