Spellbook

Spellbook

Forward Deployed Engineer

Remote - Canada

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 75 days ago
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About the role

  • Spellbook is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team.
  • In this role, you'll work directly with large law firms and in-house legal teams to integrate Spellbook into real-world enterprise environments and workflows.
  • As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be a critical member of our growing engineering team.

Responsibilities

  • Build integrations and AI-native workflows: Integrate Spellbook with document management systems (e.g. iManage, NetDocuments), identity systems, and internal APIs.
  • Design and implement workflow-heavy solutions (approvals, routing, permissions, auditability) tailored to real enterprise constraints and tools.
  • Drive adoption and impact: Work closely with end users (lawyers and legal ops), iterate rapidly based on feedback, and ensure solutions are reliable, performant, and actively used.

Requirements

  • 3-7 years of experience building and shipping production software systems.
  • Strong backend or full-stack engineering experience.
  • Experience working with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Strong ownership, with the ability to take vague problems from definition to shipped solution.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS deployments.
  • Experience with security, compliance, and data handling practices such as SOC2.
  • Experience in fast-paced startup environments.
  • Experience building APIs and integrating with external systems.
  • Exposure to LLM systems (e.g. RAG, prompting, evaluations).
  • Comfortable working directly with enterprise customers.
  • Familiarity with legal technology or document-heavy workflows.
  • Experience designing and building infrastructure on AWS with CDK.

Compensation

  • Spellbook uses industry benchmark data to establish compensation bands for all roles.
  • The salary range listed for a position reflects the expected total wage range for the role-including base salary and on-target commissions, where applicable-and may span multiple career levels.
  • Final compensation is determined during the interview process based on factors such as experience, skills, scope, and role level.
  • In addition to base salary and applicable commissions, total rewards may include equity, health and wellness benefits, and other company programs.
  • Full details will be shared during the interview process.

Benefits

  • Embrace autonomy and accountability in a flexible work environment; we focus on outcomes and empower you to determine how to get the job done
  • Access our company-paid group benefits for you and your family, with $1,000 towards mental health support
  • Disconnect during our holiday closure and take advantage of our generous time off policies throughout the year
  • Enjoy monthly paid meals, an annual wellness allowance to support your well-being and parental leave top-ups as your family grows
  • Secure your stake in our success; you'll receive competitive stock option grants as a pivotal early employee

Company info

  • Spellbook is the most comprehensive AI copilot for transactional lawyers.
  • It works directly inside Microsoft Word to help legal teams draft, review, and negotiate contracts up to 10x faster and with greater precision.
  • Today, more than 4,000 law firms, in-house teams, and solo practitioners rely on Spellbook to simplify their workflows and eliminate the drudgery of everyday contract work.
  • We are backed by leading investors including Khosla Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Inovia Capital, The LegalTech Fund, Bling Capital, and Moxxie Ventures.
  • The company recently raised $50 million in Series B funding, led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to more than $80 million.
  • This is an existing vacancy
  • Partner closely with customers to understand legal workflows and technical environments.
  • Lead end-to-end implementation of Spellbook in complex enterprise organizations and translate ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems.
  • Tune model inference, augment context, and adapt the product experience to meet specific customer needs across deployments.
  • Owning enterprise deployments: Partner closely with customers to understand legal workflows and technical environments.
  • Own enterprise deployments end-to-end: Partner with customers to understand legal workflows and technical environments; lead implementations in complex organizations; translate ambiguous requirements into production systems.
  • Tailor and extend the product for customers: Tune model inference, augment context, and adapt the product experience to meet specific customer needs across deployments.
  • Partner with customers to understand legal workflows and technical environments; lead implementations in complex organizations; translate ambiguous requirements into production systems.
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