Hybrid Staff Software Developer, DMS

at Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology

• Job title: Staff Software Developer, DMS
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: CA$171,000 - CA$256,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Vancouver, Canada

About the role

• Staff Software Developer responsible for building and scaling Clio’s Document Management System. Leading technical initiatives and contributing to architecture in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical stakeholder across multiple large-scale initiatives
• Partner with Development Managers and Product leaders to define technical roadmaps
• Identify and resolve high-impact architectural “big rocks” that unlock product opportunities
• Drive system design discussions and influence cross-team technical decisions
• Ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and performance of core systems
• Design distributed systems that handle high volumes of sensitive legal data
• Build scalable services supporting AI-powered search and intelligent document processing
• Simplify and evolve coding patterns, abstractions, and interfaces
• Recognize when pragmatic solutions are superior to complex ones
• Write high-quality, well-tested code
• Review and provide feedback on code across teams
• Raise engineering standards and improve development practices
• Contribute to architectural documentation and technical design artifacts
• Mentor senior and intermediate developers
• Provide constructive technical feedback
• Promote strong collaboration across distributed teams
• Influence technical direction beyond your immediate team

Requirements

• Significant experience building and scaling web applications (Ruby on Rails preferred but not required)
• Deep experience designing distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Proven success operating at Staff-level scope: cross-team influence, long-term technical strategy, architectural ownership
• Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms
• Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership within Agile environments
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and thrive in a dynamic, distributed organization
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted technical partnerships

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years