Software Development Manager (London)

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

We are currently seeking a highly technical Software Development Manager to join our Engineering team. This role is available to candidates across the UK, with preference in London.

At Clio we strive to be both human and high performing. For Development Managers this means supporting and growing your people, strong execution as a team and ganó as a triad (the teams Designer + Product + Development manager leadership group), and building solid technical solutions. Our development managers are highly technical and hands on, often coding, designing and reviewing alongside their team. They coach and build their teams to be both strong technically and strong team members. They create a safe and productive environment for all Clions.

As a Software Development Manager शुभ, you will play a key role in building and scaling the core services and infrastructure that power vLex products, and especially our flagship AI product, Vincent AI. You'll work closely with Research Engineers, System Engineers, Frontend developers and the Product team.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving challenging944 technical problems, cares deeply about performance and reliability, and wants to make a global impact in the legal tech domain.

A day in the life might look like:

• Collaborate with your triad to understand the challenges our business faces, identify the most impactful opportunities, and craft a roadmap for the team.
• Build APIs and services that robustly enable automation of complex legal tasks, ensuring traceability and security, using distributed computation orchestration solutions such as temporal.io or cadence.
• Develop the backend component for a solution that supports real time collaboration between users and between users and AI agents.
• Give great feedback on code reviews, architecture documents, and more to help support team members making great technical decisions for their projects.
• Actively participate as a contributor to the project, either through extensive code reviews or shipping code.
• Have a 1:1 meeting with your direct reports to make sure they are supported in their career growth and development goals.
• Participate actively in hiring to grow the engineering team at Clio.
• Review code contributed by members from your team or other Clio developers reaching out to you for your experience with a given technology or pattern.

You may be a fit for this role if:

• Demonstrated success in people leadership in software development, particularly with large scale SaaS products.
• A strong background in hands on software development in Python.
• Diverse base of knowledge that allows you to help your team solve complex technical problems.
• The ability to describe successful projects you worked on, as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects.
• Demonstrated ability to hire the best and brightest engineers in a fast paced job market-and to coach, develop, and retain engineering talent.
• 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 believe in providing honest, actionable feedbackర stvar and encourage your team to