Software Development Content Manager with JavaScript

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 transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice . Summary: We are currently seeking a highly technical Software Development Manager to join our Content team. This role is available to candidates across Spain, with preference in Barcelona. Clio is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead a team of technical Content Developers who design, build, and maintain data-collection pipelines that acquire legal content from the public web and partner sources, in JavaScript . This role is essential to strengthening Clio’s legal-content moat by ensuring that acquisition systems are accurate, scalable, resilient, and aligned with product and engineering requirements. In this role, you will oversee a team responsible for developing web crawlers and scrapers, transforming diverse content formats into structured data, and ensuring operational excellence in pipeline performance. You will provide technical direction, build effective workflows, support project execution, and partner cross-functionally to ensure that Clio consistently delivers high-quality legal content. Team Leadership and Technical Management Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Software Content Developers , supporting growth in technical skills, project delivery, and career progression. Set clear expectations for quality, velocity, and operational excellence. Provide technical guidance on crawler design, scraping strategies, data parsing, validation patterns, and error-handling approaches. Conduct regular code reviews, facilitate technical learning, and ensure consistently high engineering standards across the team. Pipeline, Infrastructure, and Technical Stewardship Ensure the team builds and maintains reliable web crawlers and scrapers using Node.js, Puppeteer, Playwright, and other modern tooling. Guide the implementation of resilient scraping strategies, including retries, throttling, schema validation, and robust error handling. Oversee infrastructure and operational readiness, ensuring pipelines remain performant, observable, and easy to maintain. Partner with engineering to plan improvements to pipeline infrastructure, storage systems, and integration points. Data Transformation and Quality Assurance Ensure that extracted data from HTML, JSON, XML, PDF, Word documents, images, and other formats is accurately transformed into structured schemas. Establish standards for normalization, validation, and testing across all content development work. Oversee automated test coverage, deterministic pipeline behaviour, and documentation of edge cases. Lead root-cause analysis for recurring data-quality issues and drive long-term fixes. Experience 5+ years of experience in s oftware content acquisition engineering , data ingestion, web scraping, or a similar technical domain. 1–3 years of technical people management experience or demonstrated technical leadership (mentoring, guiding projects, establishing standards). Deep experience with JavaScript , TypeScript, Node.js , and scraping frameworks such as Puppeteer or Playwright. Experience with parsing structured/semi-structured data (HTML, JSON, XML), and operating within relational or NoSQL data storage systems. What you will find here: Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture. Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include: Competitive, equitable salary. Top-tier medical and dental coverage at preferred employee pricing for you and your family, with access from Day 1. Clio offers a flexible hybrid work environment with intentional in-person gatherings to build connection. 23 Days Paid Time Off + Company Observed Holidays including short Fridays as well as a summer schedule for work-life balance. Professional development and growth options Pet friendly workspace in our Barcelona office Company events and social-impact programs that reinforce our shared values, community, and culture. Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years Please note salary bands may differ based on location and local currency. Additionally, benefits may differ depending on the employee's location. Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion . We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions. Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.