Software Development Manager (London)

Themis Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal tech company in the UK is seeking a Software Development Manager to join their Engineering team. This role requires strong leadership in software development and a hands-on approach to building solutions. The candidate will work closely with various teams to drive technical projects and develop APIs for legal automation. The position is hybrid, allowing flexibility while emphasizing collaboration and team growth. Ideal candidates will demonstrate technical proficiency and people management skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid work environment

Flexible time-off policy

Pension contribution

Clioversary recognition program

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success in leading software development teams.
• Strong background in hands-on software development.
• Experience in hiring and retaining engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team to identify challenges and craft a roadmap.
• Build APIs and services for automating legal tasks.
• Conduct code reviews and support team members.

Skills

People leadership in software development

Hands-on software development

Problem-solving

Team coaching

Providing constructive feedback

Tools

Ruby on Rails

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 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 hubs 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 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 Development Manager you will play a key role in building and scaling the core services and infrastructure that power vLex products and especially 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.

A day in the life might look like

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 compute orchestration solutions such as 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 make 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 the engineering team at Clio.

Reviewing code contributed by members of your team or other Clio developers reaching out to you for your experience with a given technology or pattern.

Qualifications

• 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 and 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.

Serious bonus points if you have:

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

What you will find here

Compensation is one of the main components of Clios 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 and dental coverage.
• Hybrid work environment with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
• Flexible time‑off policy.
• Pension 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 a Human and High Performing AI company meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our 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.

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