Job Description
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.
This role is available to candidates across Canada and the USA. If you are located within one of our 3 Hub locations (Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver) you will be expected to come into the office twice per week on our flexible Anchor Days.
We are hiring a user‑facing, customer‑obsessed
Staff Software Developer
to help build and scale Clio’s next‑generation
Document Management System (DMS)
— the intelligent, secure, and highly scalable platform that will unify document workflows across Clio’s product ecosystem. This is not just file storage. This is the system that will:
Ingest and process massive volumes of sensitive legal data
Provide intelligent, AI‑powered search and document insights
Deliver enterprise‑grade security and access controls
Seamlessly integrate across Clio’s product suite (Manage, Grow, Work)
Serve hundreds of thousands of legal professionals globally
As a Staff Developer in this role, you will operate as a technical leader across multiple initiatives, defining architecture, influencing roadmap decisions, and solving foundational technical challenges at scale.
What Your Team Does
High‑scale document ingestion and storage systems
Secure, compliant access control frameworks
Intelligent indexing and search capabilities
AI‑powered metadata extraction and classification
Core infrastructure that other Clio teams build upon
What You’ll Do
Technical Leadership
Act as a technical stakeholder across multiple large‑scale initiatives
Partner with Development Managers and Product leaders to define technical roadmaps
Identify and resolve high‑impact architectural “big rocks” that unlock product opportunities
Drive system design discussions and influence cross‑team technical decisions
Ensure long‑term scalability, reliability, and performance of core systems
System Design & Architecture
Design distributed systems that handle high volumes of sensitive legal data
Build scalable services supporting AI‑powered search and intelligent document processing
Simplify and evolve coding patterns, abstractions, and interfaces
Recognize when pragmatic solutions are superior to complex ones
Write high‑quality, well‑tested code
Review and provide feedback on code across teams
Raise engineering standards and improve development practices
Contribute to architectural documentation and technical design artifacts
Mentorship & Influence
Mentor senior and intermediate developers
Provide constructive technical feedback
Promote strong collaboration across distributed teams
Influence technical direction beyond your immediate team
What You Bring
Customer‑obsessed mindset
Significant experience building and scaling web applications (Ruby on Rails preferred but not required)
Deep experience designing distributed systems and scalable architectures
Proven success operating at Staff‑level scope: cross‑team influence, long‑term technical strategy, architectural ownership
Experience building large‑scale SaaS platforms
Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership within Agile environments
Ability to learn new technologies quickly and thrive in a dynamic, distributed organization
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted technical partnerships
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, and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week
Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year
$2,000 annual counseling benefit
RRSP matching and RESP 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.
Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers.
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.
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