Staff Software Developer, Clio
Databases
CA$165.3-247.9k
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Legal practice management software
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Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$165.3-247.9k
Please note salary bands may differ based on location and local currency
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team
- You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others
- You challenge and enable your team to take initiative, explore, and implement new improvements while balancing that work against satisfying the requirements as defined by the business
- You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate
- You devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security
- Hands-on technical expertise with building and configuring MySQL database servers; Bonus points for understanding how to do this in a cloud environment
- Experience investigating and solving performance problems with MySQL databases
- Solid understanding of database design, data modeling, and schema management
- Familiarity with SQL optimization techniques and best practices
- Experience using ProxySQL and the percona toolkit
- Be prepared to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge to rest of the SRE team
- A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Developer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production 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
- The Staff Software Developer, Databases will be responsible for discovering, triaging, and solving difficult performance and scalability problems in Clio's core applications and databases
- They will primarily be iterating and evolving our infrastructure, data schema, application code, and products in order to solve complicated scalability issues with a goal of achieving high performance, high scalability, and exceptional reliability
- By engaging across the organization, you'll help drive our current and future architecture and teach our engineering teams how to implement scalable patterns, particularly at the RDBMS layer
- You’ll be responsible for preparing Clio’s database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability
- You will collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals, and satisfy application requirements
- You will investigate and solve performance problems with our MySQL databases
- Work on transitioning, maintaining, and modernizing our database infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability
- You will use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize database queries, integrate best practices for schema design and migration
- You will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastores
- Participate in architectural discussions to help shape the future direction of our backend services
- You'll raise the bar by spreading database knowledge to your team
- Elevate and educate our engineering processes within Clio
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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