Software Engineering Manager

🕒 September 22

🇨🇦 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 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 • $1,000 towards mental health support • Flexible work environment • Holiday closure • Generous time off policies throughout the year • Monthly paid meals • Annual wellness allowance • Parental leave top-ups • Competitive stock option grants