Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Clio

£81.6-110.4k

This role has a midpoint of £96,000. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio

REST API

Senior and Expert level

London

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Legal practice management software

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Legal practice management software

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityComplianceLegalSaaS

Be an early applicant

£81.6-110.4k

This role has a midpoint of £96,000. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio

REST API

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BSecurityComplianceLegalSaaS

Company mission

Clio's mission is to build cloud-based and client-centred technology that will transform the legal experience for all.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You fix root causes, not symptoms. When something breaks in a client environment, you're not satisfied with a workaround. You dig until you understand why, and you bring that back to the team
You know when to move fast and when to slow down. You can build a scrappy PoC to prove an idea in a day, and you know exactly when it's time to harden that code for the long term. You don't confuse the two
You're as comfortable in a client conversation as you are in a code review. You can explain technical trade-offs to a non-technical stakeholder and earn their trust — then turn around and ship
You operate well in ambiguity. Not every problem comes with a spec. You're energized by open-ended, high-leverage challenges, and you know how to define the problem before you solve it
Strong full-stack fundamentals and deep comfort with RESTful APIs and systems integrations
Demonstrated ability to design, build and deploy production applications
Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications — retrieval, agents, structured outputs, prompt safety — and taking them through to production
Experience working directly with clients or customers: scoping ambiguous problems, communicating trade-offs, and iterating based on real-world feedback
A genuine curiosity about AI and how it applies to the legal industry, you're not just using AI tools, you're thinking about how they change what's possible

What the job involves

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll sit at the intersection of engineering and client impact, the person who turns the legal industry’s most complex challenges into working software. You'll embed with our most demanding clients, move from prototype to production quickly, and feed what you learn back into our platform and roadmap
This isn't a support role or a solutions role with some coding on the side. You'll design and build end-to-end, work directly with client technical teams, and ship code that real lawyers rely on. The best ideas you surface in the field will graduate into product features for all of Clio's users
Embed with enterprise clients to map out workflows, define clear success metrics, and de-risk constraints before writing a line of code
Design, prototype, and productionize custom AI workflows
Build and maintain integrations that slot into complex client environments using Clio APIs and the broader modern stack
Work directly with client technical teams to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize deployments in real-time
Translate experimental R&D into stable, production-grade code — the kind that eventually becomes a platform feature for every Clio user
Surface recurring patterns from the field that sharpen our product roadmap and inform how we build

Salary benchmarks

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 and benefited from the COVID-era move to cloud technologies. Most recently, it raised a 2024 Series F round, which saw the company attain a valuation exceeding $3 billion. This funding is being used to accelerate AI development and to allow existing investors and employees to cash out their shares.

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Company

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

Company HQ

Burnaby, BC

Leadership

Jack Newton

(Founder & 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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