Director, Software Engineering

Overview

Consilio is seeking for a hands-on Director of Software Development to lead the engineering team to work on our some of our market leading AI-enabled legal automation platforms that governs the end-to-end lifecycle of legal operations processes (including third-party subpoena response and data subject access requests). This is a working technical leader, not a purely administrative one: you will split your time between setting technical direction, reviewing architecture and code, and unblocking your team, while also owning delivery, people management, and quality across a blended team of inshore and offshore developers. You will partner closely with product, legal operations subject-matter experts, and company leadership to translate complex legal workflow requirements into a scalable, secure, AI platform.

Responsibilities

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 (automated workflow steps, intelligent document handling, and related legal-automation features)
• 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, including multi-tenant data isolation and role-based access controls.

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, structured for follow-the-sun or overlapping-hours delivery
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and performance-manage team members across all locations, holding both onshore and offshore staff to the same engineering bar
• Build and coach a team structure that pairs senior technical leadership with distributed development capacity, evolving hiring and staffing strategy as the platform and team scale
• Establish clear communication norms, documentation practices, and handoff processes to keep a geographically distributed team aligned and productive
• Foster a collaborative, accountable engineering culture across time zones and locations

Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with 4+ years in a hands-on engineering leadership role (Director, Senior Engineering Manager, or equivalent)
• 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, not solely manage from a distance
• Proven track record delivering complex, multi-tenant, web-based enterprise software from architecture through production
• Experience with modern software architecture: RESTful APIs, relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar), cloud infrastructure, and secure, role-based multi-tenant systems
• Solid grounding in Agile/Scrum delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog management, and release management
• 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

Preferred Qualifications & Technical Skills

• 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 (e.g., intelligent document classification, automation of manual workflow steps, LLM-based features)
• Experience with workflow or business-process-configuration engines (configurable stages, tasks, and rules-driven automation)
• Familiarity with SSO/identity integration, audit/compliance logging, and enterprise security requirements
• Experience integrating with or migrating to project/issue-tracking systems (e.g., Jira) and CI/CD toolchains
• Advanced degree (MS in Computer Science or related field) a plus
• Relevant certifications (AWS, PMP, or Scrum/SAFe) a plus

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