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Hey GWiCS - we have some exciting updates to wrap up the week!

🗳 Want to be part of our awesome exec team next school year? Our 2022-2023 elections are coming up and we would love to see you apply! This is a great chance to get involved in SOCS, make new friends, and add something cool to your resume. If you're interested in being our Events Manager, Financial Manager, Marketing Manager, or a Co-President, please fill out this form. Note, the form contains more information about the various roles. Applications close March 18th, and voting will take place in the second half of March. Any female or non-binary SOCS student is welcome to apply.

💸 The company Clio is specifically looking to hire a female Software Developer, Co-op for the S22 and F22 terms.  The position is 100% remote and the pay range is $26.92 per hour. Anyone interested send @Kate McRoberts their resume by EOD Monday, March 7th and she will directly send you to the hiring manager for review.  This is an 8-month role - and are open to non co-op students as well. Below is the job description - good luck gwicsers!

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Clio is more than just a tech company–we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

We are currently seeking a new Software Developer, Co-op to join our Engineering team in Burnaby, Calgary or Toronto. This role is also available to candidates across Canada, excluding Quebec.

Applicants should be available for a 8 month co-op period from May 2022 to December 2022. We will be accepting applications throughout January, February and March.

What your team does:

You will be working on a revolutionary SaaS product gaining experience with Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, React Native, native mobile development, MySQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch. You will be coached and mentored by some of the best developers in the business and working on some of the most challenging problems that a rapid growth venture-backed company can face.

What you’ll work on:

  • Contributing software code to the Clio suite of products;
  • Participating as a contributing member of a Clio development team, including:
    • Scoping and planning future development work.
    • Regularly reporting progress and blockers.
    • Collaboration with other members of the development organization.
    • Engaging in regular reviews of submitted work, and contributing to reviews of the work of others.
    • Contributing to feature development and generating software fixes for customer issues.
  • Engaging in team- and company-based initiatives and discussions;
  • Participating in a rotating role of coordinating product support;
  • Receiving and providing feedback on an ongoing basis;
  • Learning and growing towards a career as a professional software developer.

What you may have:

  • You’ve completed your second year coursework and are a 3rd or 4th year Computer Science/Engineering student;
  • You are a rational and critical thinker who seeks solutions when you find problems;
  • Excellent computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms; programming languages, SQL;
  • Superb communication skills written, verbal, and spoken.

Serious bonus points if you:

  • Bring new ideas to the table to help make our environment better;
  • Be constantly experimenting and learning outside the school curriculum. 

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

About Clio

At Clio, we are on a mission to transform the legal experience for all. As the world's leading provider of cloud-based legal software, we provide lawyers with low-barrier, affordable solutions to manage and grow their firms more effectively, more profitably, and with better client experiences. Through the cloud, we believe that we can help create a more inclusive legal community and a more equitable legal system. 

We are an award-winning team that has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, Canada’s Most Admired Cultures and has topped Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies.  In line with our mission, we’ve been up to some big things, including becoming a multi-product company, launching a $1 million COVID-19 Legal Relief Initiative, and most recently, securing a  US$110M Series E funding round and a USD $1.6B valuation.

This is a historic moment in the growth of legal technology! As the first legal practice management unicorn globally, and one of only a handful of Canadian unicorns, this is only the beginning. If you’ve ever wanted to do the best work of your career, while having a meaningful impact in the lives of others, then Clio is the place for you.