Software Development Manager

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 hub 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 specially 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

• Collaborating with your triad to: understand the challenges our business faces, identify the most impactful opportunities, and craft a roadmap for the team;
• Build 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
• Develop 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 participate 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.

• 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; and
• 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.

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

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits and…