Director, Software Engineering
Consilio LLC · UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE, US
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## Overview Consilio is seeking a **hands-on Director of Software Development** to lead the engineering team building **AI-enabled legal automation platforms**. You’ll govern the end-to-end lifecycle of legal operations processes, including **third-party subpoena response** and **data subject access requests**. This is a **working technical leadership** role—not purely administrative. You’ll split your time between: - Setting technical direction - Reviewing architecture and code - Unblocking your team - Owning delivery, people management, and quality across a blended **inshore and offshore** team You’ll 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 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** to improve capability, reliability, and 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, including: - **Multi-tenant data isolation** - **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 (follow-the-sun or overlapping-hours delivery) - Hire, onboard, mentor, and performance-manage team members across all locations—holding onshore and offshore staff to the same engineering bar - Build and coach a team structure pairing senior technical leadership with distributed development capacity - Establish clear communication norms, documentation practices, and handoff processes for a geographically distributed team - Foster a collaborative, accountable engineering culture across time zones and locations --- ## Qualifications ### Required - **10+ years** professional software development experience - **4+ years** in a hands-on engineering leadership role (Director, Senior Engineering Manager, or equivalent) - Demonstrated experience building and leading **distributed teams** (onshore/inshore + offshore/nearshore) - 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 - Modern software architectu
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