Software Development Manager (London)

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. We are currently seeking a Software Development Manager to join our Engineering team. This role is available to candidates across the UK, with preference in London. If you are local to one of our hubs in London you will be expected to be in office minimum twice per week on one of our Anchor Days.

At Clio we strive to be both human and high performing. For Development Managers this means supporting and growing your people, strong execution as a team and as a triad (the teams Designer + Product + Development manager leadership group), and building solid technical solutions. Our development managers are highly technical and hands-on, often coding, designing and reviewing alongside their team. They coach and build their teams to be both strong technically and strong team members. They create a safe and productive environment for all Clions.

As a Software Developer Manager, you will play a key role in building and scaling the core services and infrastructure that power vLex products, and especially our flagship AI product, Vincent AI. You’ll work closely with Research Engineers, System Engineers, Frontend developers and the Product team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving challenging technical problems, cares deeply about performance and reliability, and wants to make a global impact in the legal tech domain.

A day in the life might look like:

• Collaborating with your triad to understand the challenges our business faces, identify the most impactful opportunities, and craft a roadmap for the team;
• Building APIs and services that robustly enable automation of complex legal tasks, ensuring traceability and security, using distributed computed orchestration solutions such as temporal.io or cadence;
• Developing the backend component for a solution that supports real-time collaboration between users and between users and AI agents;
• Giving great feedback on code reviews, architecture documents, and more to help support team members making great technical decisions for their projects;
• Actively participating as a contributor to the project, either through extensive code reviews, or shipping code;
• Having a 1:1 meeting with your direct reports to make sure they are supported in their career growth and development goals;
• Actively participating in hiring to grow the engineering team at Clio;
• Reviewing code contributed by members from your team or other Clio developers reaching out to you for your experience with a given technology or pattern.

You may be a fit for this role if:

• Demonstrated success in people leadership in software development, particularly with large scale SaaS products;
• A strong background in hands-on software development;
• Diverse base of knowledge that allows you to help your team solve complex technical problems;
• The ability to describe successful projects you worked on, as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects;
• Demonstrated ability to hire the best and brightest engineers in a fast-paced job market—and to coach, develop, and retain engineering talent;
• You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team;
• You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others;
• You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate;
• You devise roadmaps to guide your team, but aren't beholden to them -- you easily adapt to a constantly changing world.

Serious bonus points if you have:

• A philosophy on what makes for great software development teams;
• Experience with CRM products at scale;
• Experience with Ruby on Rails.

What you will find here:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits and dental coverage;
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week;
• Flexible time off policy;
• Pension contribution;
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility: Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

We’re a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we’ve built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses. In-house performance coach, Katie, helps Clions accelerate their career development. At Clio, we’re creating a human and high performing culture. That means you’ll be encouraged and supported to do your best work.