[Hiring] Director of Software Engineering @Consilio

Role Description

Consilio is seeking for a hands-on Director of Software Development to lead the engineering team to work on our market-leading AI-enabled legal automation platforms that govern the end-to-end lifecycle of legal operations processes.

• Hands-on technical leadership
• Stay directly involved in architecture, design reviews, and code review; write and troubleshoot code alongside the team when needed, especially on critical-path or high-risk work.
• Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, and documentation.
• Own the technical roadmap for the platform, including its evolving AI-enabled capabilities.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and AI/ML tooling that improve platform capability, reliability, or velocity.
• Delivery and execution
• Translate business and legal-operations requirements into technical designs, epics, and sprint-level plans.
• Run agile ceremonies and manage delivery against roadmap commitments and client-facing milestones.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, bottlenecks, and cross-team dependencies before they impact delivery.
• Own production reliability, performance, and security posture for the platform.
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Partner with product management, legal operations subject-matter experts, and client-facing teams to shape the platform roadmap.
• Report progress, risks, and technical trade-offs to executive leadership.
• Coordinate with external partners and vendors on integrations where relevant.
• Team Leadership
• Directly manage a blended team of inshore and offshore software developers, engineers, and QA staff.
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and performance-manage team members across all locations.
• Build and coach a team structure that pairs senior technical leadership with distributed development capacity.
• Establish clear communication norms, documentation practices, and handoff processes.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable engineering culture across time zones and locations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with 4+ years in a hands-on engineering leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading distributed teams that combine onshore/inshore and offshore or nearshore developers.
• Strong, current hands-on technical ability — able to read, review, and contribute to code.
• Proven track record delivering complex, multi-tenant, web-based enterprise software from architecture through production.
• Experience with modern software architecture: RESTful APIs, relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and secure, role-based multi-tenant systems.
• Solid grounding in Agile/Scrum delivery practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting technical strategy and status to executive stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Requirements

• Experience in legal technology, legal operations, eDiscovery, or another regulated/compliance-driven enterprise software domain.
• Hands-on exposure to applying AI/ML capabilities within a product.
• Experience with workflow or business-process-configuration engines.
• Familiarity with SSO/identity integration, audit/compliance logging, and enterprise security requirements.
• Experience integrating with or migrating to project/issue-tracking systems and CI/CD toolchains.
• Advanced degree (MS in Computer Science or related field) a plus.
• Relevant certifications (AWS, PMP, or Scrum/SAFe) a plus.

Benefits

• #LI-LC2
• #LI-Remote