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# Software Development Manager

- **Company:** Clio
- **Location:** Barcelona, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Automation of Tests, Code Review, Web Scraping, Data Transformation, JSON, Node.Js, NoSQL, Parsing, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Crawlers, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Data Storage Technologies, Data Ingestion, Puppeteer (Software), Playwright
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.es/contact-us.html

## About the Role

+ 5+ years of experience in software 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.

## Description

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.