Staff Software Developer, Clio
Back End Infrastructure and Databases
CA$158.4-237.6k
Legal practice management software
Open for applications
Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$158.4-237.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Clio's mission is to build cloud-based and client-centred technology that will transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact
- 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, Back End Infrastructure and Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team
- The Staff Software Developer 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 specialised 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 a large amount of investment capital, most recently in a 2021 Series E round which saw the company attain unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. This funding is being used to accelerate its product development, hire additional talent, and for expansion into new markets with a focus on the EMEA region, particularly the UK and Ireland.
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Company benefits
- Company equity
- $500 contribution when you become a parent and/or guardian
- 4-week minimum vacation
- Work from home when you need to (role-specific)
- Parental leave options for moms and dads
- Customizable extended health benefits (including $2000 per year to spend on counseling)
- Wellness programs including an onsite naturopath physiotherapist, and RMT (location-dependent), healthy snacks, and exercise classes
- RRSP-matching
Company values
- Giving Back - we’re committed to creating positive social change in the community
- Creating Better Work Environments - we believe that a diverse and inclusive culture is a competitive advantage that benefits both our employees and customers
- Thriving as a Team - we live by seven core values on how to thrive, have fun, and win as a team
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Leadership
Jack Newton
(CEO)Experience as Director of Product Development for Chenomx Inc. from 2004 to 2009. Advisor for Logikcull.com, dealcloser, and Athennian.
Rian Gauvreau
(Board Member)Experience developing legal technology for Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP from 2000 to 2008. Graduated the University of British Columbia with an M.B.A. in Strategic Management in 2011.
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