Senior Product Engineer

Wordsmith; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company based in Edinburgh is looking for a talented product developer to design and deliver innovative product experiences in the legal sector. You'll be responsible for building core features, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and utilizing the latest technologies to improve legal workflows. Join a high-trust environment that offers ownership over your work, competitive salary, and the opportunity to shape the future of a growing product.

Benefits

High-trust environment

Meaningful ownership

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building high-impact web products.
• Strong knowledge of core technologies.
• Deep product instincts for UI/UX.
• Understanding of performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product features across frontend and backend.
• Collaborate with design and legal engineering.
• Help architect and evolve the codebase.
• Contribute to engineering practices and team culture.

Skills

React

Next.js

Tailwind

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

AWS

Job description

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Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid: 3 days in-office, 2 remote)

Mission: 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 We Offer:

• 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.