Software Engineering Manager

🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Spellbook

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

⚖️ Legal

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Legal • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Spellbook is an AI-powered contract management and automation platform that helps legal teams and law firms review, draft, compare and manage contracts end-to-end. The product provides AI contract review (redlines and risk flags), drafting from precedents or from scratch, market-comparisons, an AI assistant for multi-document workflows, and searchable indexed contract storage. It integrates with tools where deals start (email, Slack, Salesforce) and works directly inside Word. Spellbook emphasizes security and privacy (Zero Data Retention agreements, SOC 2 Type II compliance) and is positioned for in-house legal teams and law firms, claiming adoption by 4,500+ teams across 80+ countries and acceleration of over 10 million contracts.

📋 Description

• Lead technical projects from inception to launch • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize and solve customer pain points • Define technical vision for managed teams and build alignment on complex issues • Manage up to 8 software engineers across projects • Provide coaching, mentorship, feedback, and performance management • Conduct annual performance reviews and 1:1 meetings with direct reports • Design, architect, and implement new Spellbook application features • Set technical direction and Engineering OKRs • Scope complex tasks, coordinate teams, and unblock challenges • Use OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLMs to improve application functionality • Collaborate with product management on the React application • Improve the Express and tRPC-based API • Improve performance and reliability and fix bugs based on user feedback • Support hiring and onboarding • Maintain engineering documentation, resources, and training materials in GitHub and Notion • Establish and implement engineering best practices and workflows • Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback • Support other responsibilities and projects as required

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Software Development • Exceptional communication skills and ability to explain and advocate ideas to a diverse audience • Ability to take a product feature from an abstract idea through beta implementation to production deployment • Demonstrated project management skills across multiple projects and priorities • Self-starter and problem-solver motivated by curiosity and continuous improvement • Team-oriented approach and motivation to improve team effectiveness • Solutions-focused approach to resolving issues • Experience providing mentorship, coaching, and constructive feedback • Experience setting technical direction and scaling and maturing an engineering organization • Firm grasp of software development and computer engineering fundamentals • Ability to break down complex customer requirements into achievable plans • Candidates must be in Ontario • Must be legally able to work and reside in Canada at the time of application • No relocation or visa sponsorship support provided • Nice to have: TypeScript; JavaScript build tooling such as Vite, esbuild, and swc; startup experience; AWS/CDK infrastructure; innovative product features; LLMs, prompt improvement, and agent orchestration

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment with autonomy and accountability • Company-paid group benefits for the employee and family • $1,000 towards mental health support • Holiday closure • Generous time off policies throughout the year • Monthly paid meals • Annual wellness allowance • Parental leave top-ups • Competitive stock option grants