Product Engineer

Wordsmith; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge AI company in Edinburgh is looking for a Product Engineer to design and deliver product experiences that harness LLMs and redefine legal workflows. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of product-building experience, strong UI/UX instincts, and is comfortable with technologies like React and TypeScript. This role offers competitive salary, equity, and the chance to shape early product development in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity opportunity

High-trust environment

Meaningful ownership

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building high-impact web products.
• Strong knowledge of core web technologies.
• Deep product instincts with focus on UI/UX.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product features across frontend and backend.
• Collaborate to deliver polished, AI-native workflows.
• Help architect and evolve codebase for performance and scale.

Skills

Product experience

UI/UX design

React

Next.js

Tailwind

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

AWS

Job description

Role

Product Engineer

Salary

Up to £100k + Equity

Location

Edinburgh (Hybrid - Min 3 days in office)

Overview

Wordsmith is the AI command center for in-house legal. We automate the chaos-intake, Q&A, redlines, drafting, and research so legal can operate at the speed of business.

Backed by Index Ventures and some of the sharpest minds in law and AI, we\'re scaling fast across London, New York, and beyond. Our customers include fast-growth tech companies and public enterprises. We\'re building the future of legal work.

The Role

Design and deliver world-class product experiences that harness the power of LLMs and redefine how legal teams work. You\'ll build core features, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teammates to ship fast, iterate, and make an impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product features across frontend and backend
• Collaborate with design, product, and legal engineering to deliver polished, AI-native workflows
• Help architect and evolve our codebase for performance, scale, and developer experience
• Contribute to shaping engineering practices, tooling, and team culture

Experience & Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building high-impact web products
• Strong knowledge of core technologies like React, Next.js, Tailwind, TypeScript; backend experience (e.g. Python, Node.js, AWS) is a bonus
• Deep product instincts - you care about clean UI, intuitive UX, and building for user outcomes
• Practical understanding of security, scalability, and technical debt in fast-moving environments
• Interest in AI/LLMs and building AI-native user experiences

What you can expect

• A high-trust environment with meaningful ownership over what you build
• Real-world product challenges—security, performance, usability—at the heart of legal workflows
• A tight-knit team of engineers, designers, legal minds, and builders
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and the opportunity to shape an early product and team

Who You Are

You might have built at an early-stage startup or scaled features at a high-growth company. You\'re fluent in full-stack thinking, but even more fluent in user empathy. You\'re excited by the pace and ambiguity of a company still forming its best practices—and you love helping define them.

Bonus

Experience working on internal legal tools, legal ops software, or compliance platforms. Curiosity around prompt engineering, user intent modeling, or AI reasoning is also a plus.

If you\'re looking for more than just a job - a place to learn, grow, and have a real impact from day one - this could be the one. We\'re building something exciting, and we\'re looking for people who want to be part of the journey. If that sounds like you, hit apply.