Director of Engineering, Internal Platform

Themis Solutions Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 359,000 - 538,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work environment

Paid time off

Counseling benefit

RRSP matching

RESP contribution

Clioversary program

Job summary

Clio is seeking a seasoned Director of Engineering to build and maintain a secure, scalable internal platform. You will lead from the front, combining hands-on coding with strategic oversight to unlock velocity while enforcing safety and security across use cases.

You will supervise engineering managers and ICs, collaborate with leadership to evolve LLM usage, and recruit top talent to sustain Clio’s ambitious growth in tooling and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leader with strong hands-on capability.
• Proven track record delivering secure, reliable platforms at scale.
• Experience shaping long-term roadmaps for internal platforms.
• Mentors high-performing teams and fosters professional growth.
• Promotes inclusive culture and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering leaders and ICs across teams.
• Define and drive the internal platform strategy and guardrails for security and observability.
• Collaborate with executives to align platform goals with business strategy.
• Ship code and infrastructure-as-code while ensuring high velocity and safety.
• Recruit and hire top engineering talent to support growth.
• Advocate responsible use of the internal platform and LLM tooling.

Skills

Engineering leadership

LLM tooling

Strategic roadmapping

Mentoring teams

Security & reliability

Agile at scale

Cross-functional collaboration

Culture & inclusion

Job description

Director of Engineering, Internal Platform

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 seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to build and maintain a highly secure, available, and performant internal platform at Clio. This role will empower all Clions to securely build tooling and engage with LLMs, unlocking their velocity. The ideal candidate will collaborate organization-wide to transform core systems or processes and “lead from the front” by directly implementing, triaging, and solving problems.

The internal platform encompasses the infrastructure, tooling, observability, controls, and shared capabilities Clions depend on to build, ship, and operate internal workflows. It will form the foundation for business transformation as Clio scales internal tooling and LLM usage. This broadly-scoped role will help define its own boundaries while responsibly balancing high velocity with maintaining the guardrails required to enforce safety and security across all use cases.

What You’ll Work On:

• Author, review, and ship both code and infrastructure-as-code to create and maintain Clio’s internal platform.
• Analyze Clio's platform use cases, strengths, weaknesses, and infrastructure gaps to deliver impactful solutions that elevate operational excellence.
• Work with senior leadership across the organization to evolve our internal strategy for LLM use and build the necessary guardrails and observability to empower it.
• Directly supervise, mentor, and collaborate with engineering managers and individual contributors who are in the thick of it every day.
• Partner with Clions and our internal tooling teams to help ensure all of our internal tools meet a high bar for security, performance, reliability, availability and change velocity.
• Train and advocate for the responsible use of the internal platform across Clio.
• Work closely with the recruiting/people team to actively recruit and hire top talent to support Clio’s ambitious growth plans for our infrastructure and development teams.

About You:

• Experienced senior engineering leader who is still comfortable pushing code.
• Eager adopter of LLM tooling and experienced user of frontier models and related technologies (MCP, agentic harnesses, agent guardrails).
• Experienced at managing across and up the organization as you define, communicate, and champion a long-term strategic roadmap for our internal platform to unlock organizational velocity and scale.
• Adept at managing and mentoring high-performing teams, nurturing talent, and guiding individuals toward professional growth and development.
• Proven track record of maintaining services and systems.
• Experienced in crafting long-term strategies and managing technical roadmaps that pave the way for future growth.
• Capable of running agile organizations at scale and with a sense of urgency to deliver quality software to solve customer problems.
• Demonstrated experience in promoting positive culture and diversity throughout a large engineering organization.

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to build and maintain a highly secure, available, and performant internal platform at Clio. This role will empower all Clions to securely build tooling and engage with LLMs, unlocking their velocity. The ideal candidate will collaborate organization-wide to transform core systems or processes and “lead from the front” by directly implementing, triaging, and solving problems.

The internal platform encompasses the infrastructure, tooling, observability, controls, and shared capabilities Clions depend on to build, ship, and operate internal workflows. It will form the foundation for business transformation as Clio scales internal tooling and LLM usage. This broadly-scoped role will help define its own boundaries while responsibly balancing high velocity with maintaining the guardrails required to enforce safety and security across all use cases.

This role is a backfill for an existing position.

What you will find here:

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.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• 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.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

The on-target earnings (OTE) salary range for this role is $257,300 to $385,900 reflecting base salary plus variable compensation at 100% attainment. Variable compensation is not guaranteed and will depend on individual, team, or company performance. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated todiversity, 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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