Senior Software Developer, Clio
Knowledge Extraction Team
CA$144.7-195.9k
Legal practice management software
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Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$144.7-195.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, backend, data engineering, or AI systems development
- Hands-on experience delivering production-grade systems that integrate data, APIs, and complex workflows
- Strong proficiency in Python. Experience with Ruby is an asset (some of our services are Ruby-based)
- Experience working with semi-structured or heterogeneous data (documents, JSON, nested or variant records): parsing, extraction, classification, and entity resolution
- Experience with AI/ML or LLM-powered systems (e.g. prompt design, orchestration, retrieval, model integration, or evaluation)
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), SQL, and processing data at scale
- Solid understanding of system design, reliability, observability, and operational best practices
- Ability to work effectively with non-technical and domain stakeholders and translate business needs into technical solutions
- Experience operating in environments with security, privacy, or compliance constraints
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, or equivalent practical experience
- A keen interest in improving your craft, including using AI
- This role is a backfill for an existing position
What the job involves
- We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI to join our Knowledge Extraction Team
- The Senior Software Engineer, AI is a hands-on technical leader responsible for building, operating, and evolving the systems that turn large volumes of semi-structured legal documents into structured, trustworthy legal data
- Reporting to the Development Manager, this role focuses on delivering reliable, secure, and scalable AI-enabled pipelines and services that process caselaw across many jurisdictions, at a scale of millions of documents and tens of millions of citation relationships
- You will work closely with partners across editorial and legal data teams, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering to turn real problems in legal information into production-grade solutions
- This role owns the full lifecycle of what you build, from design and implementation through monitoring, iteration, and long-term support
- Design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that extract, classify, and resolve information from semi-structured legal documents at scale
- Build and operate LLM-powered workflows (batch classification, prompt design and calibration, retrieval, and model integration) using providers such as OpenAI and AWS Bedrock
- Improve the accuracy and coverage of core capabilities like citation recognition, citation resolution, and treatment detection, including work across multiple jurisdictions
- Work with large, heterogeneous document sets and curated evaluation sets to measure model quality and drive it up over time
- Ensure solutions are observable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, with clear monitoring and operational ownership (e.g. Datadog)
- Operate in the cloud (AWS: Batch, Lambda, ECS, RDS/Postgres, S3, and search/vector stores such as Vespa) with solid CI/CD practices
- Contribute to and uphold responsible AI standards, including privacy, security, legal accuracy, and audibility, given the sensitivity of legal data
- Collaborate with cross-functional and non-technical partners (including legal editors) to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical designs and shipped solutions
- Act as a technical mentor and thought partner within the team, helping raise the bar for engineering quality and delivery
Our take
Modern law firms increasingly manage their work digitally but the lack of a specialized remote solution means that workflows have become fragmented. This leads to legal practice managers having to juggle multiple software solutions across various devices.
Clio provides a legal practice management platform designed for law firms, allowing users to manage billing for legal aid cases, access and manage documents and store files across multiple devices. Whilst other startups are operating in this niche, Clio has uniquely focussed on synchronisation across remote devices and on a wide range of integrations, allowing the user to access information from other industry standard software such as Xero and Klyant from within a single interface.
Clio has raised significant funding and benefited from the COVID-era shift toward cloud technologies. More recently, the company has experienced rapid growth following the integration of AI into its platform in 2023. Alongside this, it surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in mid-2024 and has since grown to an impressive $500M ARR. The company was valued at $5B following a $500M funding round in 2025, with the investment supporting further AI development and platform expansion.
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Company benefits
- Specialized learning and development programs and access to an in-house performance coach
- Equitable compensation for your contributions, regardless of gender, race, or any other identifying factor
- Access to pay transparency on all of our global roles
- Company equity for applicable employees
- RRSP-matching in Canada, 401k in the US, and pension plans in Ireland
- Hybrid model – striking the right balance between the benefits of in person connectivity that in office brings, and the flexibility of remote
- Flexible paid time off (4-week minimum with opportunities for personalization based on individual needs and achievements)
- Parental leave options for birthing and non-birthing parents
- A $500 contribution to your child’s RESP
- Various health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family, including an Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Virtual and In-person Wellness Programs to support mental and physical health
- Paid time for volunteering through our Clio Gives program
- $2000 annual counseling benefit for CAD Clions
Company HQ
Burnaby, BC
Leadership
Jack Newton
(Founder & CEO)Alongside serving as Clio's CEO since founding the company in 2008, Jack is an Advisor at Athennian, dealcloser, and Logikcull. Previously, they were a Board Member at ROSS Intelligence and a Director of Product Development at Chenomx.
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