Staff Software Developer

Clio; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Hybrid work model

20 days off per year

Counseling benefit

RRSP matching

RESP contribution

Job summary

Clio, a global leader in legal AI technology, seeks a Staff Software Developer to join our Vancouver-area engineering team. You will help shape the multi-year technical strategy for the Fintech portfolio, focusing on mid-market billing adoption and new financial products.

You will mentor peers, drive scalable web architectures, and deliver high-quality, well-tested code across distributed teams in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in building web applications at scale.
• Proven track record mentoring software teams and working in Agile processes on large SaaS products.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build trusted relationships.
• Experience building high-throughput, distributed systems in financial domains like invoicing, payments, or payroll.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical stakeholder across multiple projects and teams.
• Define technical roadmaps and drive multi-year architectural direction.
• Lead and review code, mentor developers, and improve engineering practices.
• Collaborate with peers to simplify patterns and accelerate delivery.

Skills

Software development

Mentorship

Agile

Distributed systems

Communication

Invoicing/Payments/Payroll

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.

We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

We are currently seeking a Staff Software Developer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada, excluding Quebec.

What your team does:

We at Clio have an amazing team that is on a mission to transform the legal experience for all, and our engineering team’s goal is to deliver an incredible experience to our customers. To enable our engineers to build the best product they can, our development team has to build the best possible product that is performant, reliable, scalable, and beautiful.

You will be part of the Fintech portfolio, working with a focus on the Mid-Market segment to increase billing adoption and launching new financial products.

A day in the life might look like:

• Acting as a technical stakeholder for multiple projects and teams within your area of focus;
• Partnering with development managers in defining the technical roadmap for an area;
• Driving the multi-year technical strategy and architectural direction for your area
• Identifying and resolving technical big rocks that unblocks product opportunities;
• Orchestrating AI agents to architect, review, write high quality and well-tested code
• Collaborating with a team of developers to solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to Clio customers;
• Recognizing when the simple solution is the right one;
• Simplifying coding patterns, interfaces, and abstractions to make them more approachable;
• Using a wide variety of technologies, learning new things, and challenging yourself;
• Reviewing and providing feedback on a peer's code, both from within your own team or across all of Clio. Thrive as #TeamClio;
• Teaching and learning from those around you - providing constructive feedback to those around you, and taking on feedback to help grow.

What you may have:

• Experience in software development, specifically with building web applications at scale;
• The ability to master new technologies quickly and work effectively in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment that includes distributed teams and customers;
• Demonstrated success in mentorship in software development, particularly using an Agile process and with large scale SaaS products;
• A diverse base of knowledge that allows you to help your team solve complex technical problems;
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects); and
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with fellow Clions and customers.
• Experience building high-throughput and distributed systems that have processed Invoicing, Payments or Financial Products like Payroll.

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, 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

The expected salary range for this role is $176,000 to $264,000 CAD. 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 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.