AI-Driven Software Engineer for Legal Tech

Spellbook; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid group benefits

Mental health support stipend

Generous time off policies

Monthly meals

Wellness allowance

Parental leave top-ups

Stock option grants

Job summary

Spellbook is the most comprehensive AI copilot for transactional lawyers, working inside Microsoft Word to accelerate contract work. We are seeking a software engineer to design and implement features in a fast-growing product used by thousands of law firms and in-house teams.

You will work on OpenAI/Anthropic LLM integrations, React frontend, and an Express/tRPC API, while building scalable AWS infrastructure. Join a distributed team and help shape the next generation of legal tech.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to explain ideas to a diverse audience.
• Ability to take a vague idea to a production-ready feature deployed to customers.
• Self-starter and problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Team player who helps the team succeed and fix issues.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of a distributed team in a fast paced environment, identifying opportunities to make impactful enhancements to lawyer workflows.
• Designing, architecting, and implementing new features in the Spellbook application.
• Using the latest large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers to add and improve application functionality such as providing our customers with review suggestions they can use to improve their documents.
• Collaborate with our product management team on changes to our React application to improve customer experience.
• Add and improve application functionality by improving our Express and tRPC based API.
• Improving the performance and reliability of existing functionality and addressing user feedback through bug fixes.
• Building and maintaining application infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
• Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to team members.
• Other responsibilities as required.

Skills

5+ years of software development

Exceptional communication skills

Translate vague ideas into plans

Team player & proactive

Fundamentals of software development

Break down complex requirements

Tools

TypeScript

Job description

Spellbook is the most comprehensive AI copilot for transactional lawyers, working inside Microsoft Word to accelerate contract work. We are seeking a software engineer to design and implement features in a fast-growing product used by thousands of law firms and in-house teams.

You will work on OpenAI/Anthropic LLM integrations, React frontend, and an Express/tRPC API, while building scalable AWS infrastructure. Join a distributed team and help shape the next generation of legal tech.