Staff Software Developer

Clio; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

20 days off per year

Counseling benefit

Job summary

Clio is seeking a Staff Engineer to join our engineering team in Dublin, with a global-ready product focus. The role emphasizes building innovative solutions, mentorship, and leadership across distributed teams while delivering high-quality software and scalable systems.

You will partner with managers to shape technical roadmaps, resolve blockers, and craft elegant, robust code for Clio customers in a rapidly evolving SaaS environment. This is a hybrid role with global impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development, specifically with building web applications at scale and Ruby on Rails.
• Ability to master new technologies quickly in a dynamic, evolving environment with distributed teams.
• Mentorship experience in software development, using Agile, with large scale SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a technical stakeholder for multiple projects within your area of focus.
• Partnering with development managers in defining the technical roadmap for an area.
• Identifying and resolving technical big rocks that unblock product opportunities.
• Writing high quality and well-tested code.
• Collaborating with a team of developers to solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to Clio customers.
• Reviewing and providing feedback on peer code across teams to thrive as TeamClio.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Software development

Mentorship

Agile

Technical leadership

Distributed teams

Tools

Web scalability

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 Engineer 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 in Toronto, Dublin, and Barcelona.

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.

Our team establishes the technical foundations that enable dev teams to build global-ready products without sacrificing development speed.

A day in the life might look like:

• Acting as a technical stakeholder for multiple projects within your area of focus;
• Partnering with development managers in defining the technical roadmap for an area;
• Identifying and resolving technical big rocks that unblocks product opportunities;
• Writing 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 and Ruby on Rails;
• 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);
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with fellow Clions and customers; and
• International/global development experience is a plus, but not required.

This is a new role.

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.