Director of Engineering, Clio
Internal Platform
CA$214.4-321.6k
+ variable pay that is based on company performance
2 days a week in office
Legal practice management software
Open for applications
Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$214.4-321.6k
+ variable pay that is based on company performance
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced senior engineering leader who is still comfortable pushing code
- Eager adopter of LLM tooling and experienced user of frontier models and related technologies (MCP, agentic harnesses, agent guardrails)
- Experienced at managing across and up the organization as you define, communicate, and champion a long-term strategic roadmap for our internal platform to unlock organizational velocity and scale
- Adept at managing and mentoring high-performing teams, nurturing talent, and guiding individuals toward professional growth and development
- Proven track record of maintaining services and systems
- Experienced in crafting long-term strategies and managing technical roadmaps that pave the way for future growth
- Capable of running agile organizations at scale and with a sense of urgency to deliver quality software to solve customer problems
- Demonstrated experience in promoting positive culture and diversity throughout a large engineering organization
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to build and maintain a highly secure, available, and performant internal platform at Clio. This role will empower all Clions to securely build tooling and engage with LLMs, unlocking their velocity. The ideal candidate will collaborate organization-wide to transform core systems or processes and “lead from the front” by directly implementing, triaging, and solving problems
- The internal platform encompasses the infrastructure, tooling, observability, controls, and shared capabilities Clions depend on to build, ship, and operate internal workflows. It will form the foundation for business transformation as Clio scales internal tooling and LLM usage. This broadly-scoped role will help define its own boundaries while responsibly balancing high velocity with maintaining the guardrails required to enforce safety and security across all use cases
- Author, review, and ship both code and infrastructure-as-code to create and maintain Clio’s internal platform
- Analyze Clio's platform use cases, strengths, weaknesses, and infrastructure gaps to deliver impactful solutions that elevate operational excellence
- Work with senior leadership across the organization to evolve our internal strategy for LLM use and build the necessary guardrails and observability to empower it
- Directly supervise, mentor, and collaborate with engineering managers and individual contributors who are in the thick of it every day
- Partner with Clions and our internal tooling teams to support them in ensuring all of our internal tools meet a high bar for security, performance, reliability, availability and change velocity
- Train and advocate for the responsible use of the internal platform across Clio
- Work closely with the recruiting/people team to actively recruit and hire top talent to support Clio’s ambitious growth plans for our infrastructure and development teams
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
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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