AI-Powered Engineering Manager (Legal Tech)

Spellbook

Canada

On-site

CAD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment
Company-paid benefits
Mental health stipend
Generous time off
Wellness allowance
Stock options

Job summary

Spellbook is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a small team building AI products for legal professionals. This is a technical leadership role with responsibility for product outcomes, engineering quality, and team performance.

You’ll work closely with product and design, stay involved in architecture and implementation, and help the team make good decisions under uncertainty. You’ll also determine how coding agents and automation should change the way we develop software, based on what

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software development with technical leadership
  • Strong system design and web development skills
  • Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, AWS
  • Experience leading production software development
  • Regular use of AI tools or coding agents
  • Ability to prototype and review code
  • Strong product judgment and customer-focused planning

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small team and own product outcomes
  • Collaborate with product, design, and customer teams
  • Set technical direction and prioritize work
  • Hands-on prototyping and architecture review
  • Improve speed and quality with AI-assisted workflows
  • Review critical code and designs

Skills

Software leadership
System design
JavaScript/TypeScript
React
Node.js
AWS
AI tooling
Product judgment
Communication

Tools

CI/CD
Terraform
Docker

Job description

Spellbook is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a small team building AI products for legal professionals. This is a technical leadership role with responsibility for product outcomes, engineering quality, and team performance.

You’ll work closely with product and design, stay involved in architecture and implementation, and help the team make good decisions under uncertainty. You’ll also determine how coding agents and automation should change the way we develop software, based on what

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