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title: 'Engineering Manager | Applied AI at JUPUS'
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# Engineering Manager | Applied AI at JUPUS

- **Company:** JUPUS
- **Location:** Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jupus/a40c4367-20c9-4afe-9b6c-bdc8608c6677

## Job description

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to own AI at one of the fastest-growing AI legal tech companies in Europe. Over 2,000 lawyers use JUPUS every day, and the AI behind it is already in production and already in front of customers. You'd own the team, the technical roadmap, and the standard everything gets built to. You'll report to our Head of Engineering and lead our AI team. This is a leadership role, not a senior engineering seat with a lead title. You won't be shipping features yourself, and that's deliberate- we want someone whose leverage comes from the team they build and the calls they make.

## Your Challenge and Opportunity in This Role

Legal work is document-heavy, judgement-heavy, and almost untouched by AI. We've trained on over a million German court rulings and handled over a million cases, so the hard part isn't proving AI belongs here. The hard part is doing it well enough that a lawyer will put their professional judgement behind the output. Your job is to make that repeatable. The field throws up something new every week and most of it is noise. We need someone who can tell the difference, turn that judgement into a roadmap, and build a team that can actually deliver it.

Tasks Leading the team

- Make the team better than you found it: hire, mentor, and raise the bar on what good looks like here. Your impact shows up in what they ship when you're not in the room.
- Set the engineering standard for AI work: evaluation, testing and observability, and a delivery rhythm that holds up when the pressure is on.
- Own delivery at startup pace, without trading away the accuracy lawyers depend on.

Direction and roadmap

- Own the technical roadmap: architecture, agent frameworks, retrieval, evaluation and observability. You won't be writing the code, but you will be the person who says whether the design is right.
- Partner with product on what gets built: product owns the product roadmap, you own what is technically possible and what it will actually cost.
- Separate signal from noise: track how generative and agentic AI is actually evolving, and turn it into decisions rather than slide decks.

Across the company

- Get AI into real product workflows, working with design and engineering so it lands as something people use rather than something we demo.
- Make the rest of the business better at AI. You're the authority here, and the goal is that other teams get sharper because you're in the building.
- Explain AI to people who don't build it, from engineers to the CEO, without dumbing it down or hiding behind it.

## Requirements

Leadership

- You've run an engineering team and made it better. Direct reports, and specific examples of people who levelled up under you.
- You get results through people who don't report to you: product managers, domain experts, other teams.
- You've led at pace, on high-performing teams with real deadlines, and you know what to cut.

AI Depth

- At least 3 years at a company where generative or agentic AI is central to the product, not bolted onto it.
- Teams you've led have shipped agentic systems to production. Prototypes and demos don't count.
- You can hold your own on the detail: retrieval quality, evaluation, observability, agent design. You recognise an over-engineered solution when you see one.

Further Requirements

- Located within CET +/-2.
- Nice to have: a formal background in AI or ML, experience taking a product from non-AI-native to AI-native, familiarity with LangGraph, MCP, LangSmith or Langfuse, or legal tech and other regulated domains.

## Benefits

🧠 Real Ownership – The AI function is yours: team, roadmap and standards. No committee between you and a decision. ⚖️ A Market Ripe for Disruption – Agentic AI in a profession that has barely been automated at all, on a product 2,000+ lawyers already use every day. 📈 Growth Stage – €19.5M raised and a team that has nearly tripled in two years. 🏡 Fully Remote – Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere 💻 Top Equipment – State-of-the-art MacBook plus all the accessories you need 🏋️ Wellbeing Perks – Urban Sports Club membership to support your healthy lifestyle

If you want to own how AI gets built inside a product that thousands of lawyers rely on every day, we'd love to hear from you.

## About JUPUS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: JUPUS provides an AI-powered legal secretary platform that automates client intake, document generation, and communication for law firms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – €13M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Cologne, Germany
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: René Fergen and Jannis Gebauer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal technology (AI software for law firms)
- **Target customers**: B2B – solo practitioners, small to mid-size law firms, and larger practices in German-speaking Europe
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Automate the client intake process from initial contact to complete file, reducing administrative load and enabling lawyers to focus on billable work.

## Products & Services
- **JUPUS AI Chatbot**: An intelligent chatbot for law firm websites that captures visitor inquiries, asks for relevant information and documents, and converts 3x more visitors into formal requests.
- **JUPUS Phone AI**: An AI answering machine that understands caller concerns, asks for key details, and never misses an important call.
- **Online Appointment Booking**: A calendar widget synced with the firm’s calendar; clients reserve appointments and provide preliminary legal information before booking.
- **Digital Questionnaires & Document Generation**: Automatically generates powers of attorney, fee agreements, and other legal documents from client-submitted information; supports digital signatures.
- **Automated File Creation**: One-click creation of case files in the firm’s software, including all collected master data, documents, and communication history.
- **Central Request Platform**: All inquiries (email, phone, website) are aggregated in a single dashboard with AI-powered summarisation and suggested replies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – €13M Series A (lead investor undisclosed in snippet; previous seed of €6.5M led by Acton Capital) [htgf.de](https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/jupus/) | Total funding approx. €20M (combining angel, pre-seed, seed, and Series A)
- **Notable Investors**: Acton Capital (lead seed), HTGF (High-Tech Gründerfonds, lead pre-seed), plus multiple angel investors including Marcus Bez, Ingo Weber, Laura Wolfram [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/jupuslegal)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 176% YoY to 59 employees; 20 active job postings (monthly job postings +17.6%); hundreds of law firms processing 200+ inquiries per day (as of May 2023) [htgf.de](https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/jupus/) | LinkedIn followers grew 129% YoY to 4,397

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first automation** that covers the entire client intake workflow – from chatbot to digital signature – not just a single piece of software.
- **Full compliance** with GDPR, BRAO (German legal professional rules), and use of certified EU servers.
- **30-minute setup** and immediate integration with 30+ law firm software systems (e.g., AnNoText, RA-Micro, DATEV).
- **No training required** – platform is pre-configured with the firm’s own documents during onboarding.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling sales and customer success** to capture the growing German legal-tech market (20 open positions in sales, onboarding, and customer success).
- **Deepening AI capabilities** with the new Phone AI module and expanding conversational AI to handle more complex legal queries.
- **Internationalisation** – small presence already established in the UK, Nigeria, and Spain; likely expansion beyond DACH region.

## Why Work Here
- **Fast-growing startup** with 176% headcount growth and a clear product-market fit in a traditional industry ripe for disruption.
- **Hybrid/office culture** – headquartered in Cologne (WeWork at Pilgrimstraße 6c) with a young, multidisciplinary team (engineering, product, sales, marketing).
- **Strong technical team** – 11 engineers (16% of workforce) led by a Head of Engineering, with a Lead Product Designer and a Head of Product.
- **Impactful work** – every employee directly contributes to reducing lawyers’ administrative burden and improving client experience.
- **Transparent culture** – open job postings show heavy investment in go-to-market roles, indicating aggressive growth and career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [jupus.de](https://www.jupus.de/en) – Official product and pricing page
2. [linkedin.com](https://de.linkedin.com/company/jupuslegal) – Company overview, employee data, funding details, open positions
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/jupus) – Headquarters, financials, total funding
4. [htgf.de](https://www.htgf.de/en/portfolio/htgffamily/jupus/) – Funding history, team size, daily inquiry volume, founder names
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jupus) – Careers page (20 active openings)

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