Development Manager, Draft

About the position

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 transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice. We are currently seeking a Software Development Manager to join our Engineering team for Draft, our AI-powered legal drafting product. This role is available to candidates local to our Burnaby hub, where you will be expected to be in office minimum twice per week on 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. At Clio, we are on a mission to transform the legal experience for all. As the world's leading provider of cloud-based legal software, we provide lawyers with low-barrier, affordable solutions to manage and grow their firms more effectively, more profitably, and with better client experiences. Through the cloud, we believe that we can help create a more inclusive legal community and a more equitable legal system. We are an award-winning team that has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, Canada’s Most Admired Cultures and has topped Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies. In line with our mission, we’ve been up to some big things, including becoming a multi-product company, launching a \$1 million COVID-19 Legal Relief Initiative, and most recently, securing a US\$110M Series E funding round and a USD \$1.6B valuation. This is a historic moment in the growth of legal technology! As the first legal practice management unicorn globally, and one of only a handful of Canadian unicorns, this is only the beginning. If you’ve ever wanted to do the best work of your career, while having a meaningful impact in the lives of others, then Clio is the place for you.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborating with your triad to: understand the challenges our business faces, identify the most impactful opportunities, and craft a roadmap for the team
  • Working with your team on designing the technical solutions
  • 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 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

Requirements

  • 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 loosely 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
  • Growth mindset when it comes to process improvement and new technologies, especially AI

Nice-to-haves

  • A philosophy on what makes for great software development teams
  • Experience with AI products at scale
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails or Python

Benefits

  • Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
  • Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, London, New York City and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
  • Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
  • \$2000 annual counseling benefit
  • RRSP matching and RESP contribution
  • Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years
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