Senior Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: FullTime
• Salary: Not provided

Spellbook is the leading AI suite for commercial lawyers, trusted by more than 2,600 law firms and in-house teams worldwide. Our mission is to make legal services more accessible by empowering legal professionals with AI tools that enable them to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. We've grown more than 25x since our launch in 2022 with customers like Nestle, Fender, Crocs, WSP and more - join us on our journey building magical tools that lawyers love.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a distributed team in a fast-paced environment, identifying opportunities to make impactful enhancements to lawyer workflows.
• Design, architect, and implement new features in the Spellbook application.
• Utilize the latest large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM providers to add and improve application functionality, such as providing customers with review suggestions to improve their documents.
• Collaborate with the product management team on changes to our React application to improve customer experience.
• Add and improve application functionality by enhancing our Express and tRPC based API.
• Improve the performance and reliability of existing functionality and address user feedback through bug fixes.
• Build and maintain application infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Perform other responsibilities as required.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Software Development.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication skills – ability to explain and advocate ideas to a diverse audience.
• Product Development: Ability to take a product feature from a vague abstract idea to a demo beta implementation to a production-ready feature deployed to customers.
• Self-Starter: Self-starter and problem-solver motivated by curiosity and a desire to help others succeed, encouraged by continuous improvement.
• Team Player: A team player motivated to help Spellbook succeed. Eager and able to help fix issues and implement ways to help and improve the work of the team as a whole.
• Fundamentals: Firm grasp of the fundamentals of software development and computer engineering.
• Requirement Breakdown: Ability to break complex and vague customer requirements down into clear, achievable plans to get product features shipped in record time.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with Javascript build tooling such as Vite, esbuild, and swc.
• Experience in small startup environments.
• Experience designing and building infrastructure on AWS in CDK.
• Proven experience driving new and innovative product features from concept to production.
• Demonstrated ability working with LLMs, improving prompts, and orchestrating agents.

Company Information

Spellbook is the leading AI suite for commercial lawyers, trusted by more than 2,600 law firms and in-house teams worldwide. Our mission is to make legal services more accessible by empowering legal professionals with AI tools that enable them to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. We've grown more than 25x since our launch in 2022 with customers like Nestle, Fender, Crocs, WSP and more - join us on our journey building magical tools that lawyers love.

Application Instructions

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