Engineering Manager leading a small team building Spellbook’s AI copilot for transactional lawyers. Driving technical direction, product delivery, and effective use of coding agents.
Responsibilities
Lead a small team building AI products for legal professionals
Work with product, design, and customer-facing teams to identify important customer problems and decide what to build
Develop understanding of how legal professionals use Spellbook through customer conversations, product data, and direct observation
Set technical direction and prioritize work based on customer impact, business value, technical risk, and long-term platform leverage
Lead delivery and take responsibility for quality, reliability, and results
Prototype, contribute to architecture and implementation, and review critical code and designs
Test and adopt coding-agent and automation practices that improve speed or quality
Define standards for reviewing, testing, evaluating, and operating software produced by engineers and agents
Help engineers improve technical judgment, product thinking, and effective use of AI
Contribute to Spellbook’s engineering strategy as AI changes software development
Requirements
5+ years of software development experience, including technical leadership in a startup, scale-up, or other fast-moving environment
Strong system design and web development skills
Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, and AWS
Experience leading the development and operation of production software
Regular use of coding agents or similar AI tools, with concrete examples of improving development speed or quality
Ability to prototype, review code, evaluate technical approaches, and make pragmatic architecture decisions
Strong product judgment and a record of turning ambiguous customer problems into focused plans and shipped products
Ability to balance near-term delivery with reliability, maintainability, and longer-term technical needs
Clear communication and ability to align engineering, product, and design around decisions and tradeoffs
Experience coaching engineers and setting a high standard for performance without adding unnecessary process
Must be legally able to work and reside in Canada at the time of application
Nice to have: experience building LLM-based products, agent workflows, or evaluation systems
Nice to have: familiarity with operating AI systems reliably and securely in production
Nice to have: track record of launching new products at scale
Nice to have: founder experience or another role with broad ownership
Benefits
Company-paid group benefits for you and your family
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