Spellbook is the most comprehensive AI copilot for transactional lawyers, working directly inside Microsoft Word to help legal teams draft, review, and negotiate contracts up to 10x faster. We are backed by leading investors including Khosla Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Inovia Capital, and recently raised a $50 million Series B funding round.
About the Role
Spellbook is seeking a generalist Platform and Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. You'll work across our entire technical stack—from infrastructure (AWS, MongoDB, infrastructure as code, Datadog, CI/CD) to platform capabilities that enable product development and system reliability. You'll be instrumental in building the technical foundations that enable Spellbook to scale.
As part of our growing engineering team, you will focus on three key areas:
- Building technology foundations: Own and evolve foundational platform systems (identity and access, core data models, internal platform capabilities).
- Maintaining world-class quality: Drive us toward 99.5% service levels through improved monitoring, observability, and reliability practices, establishing QA foundations and development best practices.
- Enabling development velocity: Reduce friction in our dev environment and CI/CD pipeline, introducing productivity metrics and tooling improvements.
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure management and optimization (AWS, MongoDB, infrastructure as code)
- Platform capabilities including authentication, authorization, entitlement, and AI inference
- CI/CD pipeline improvements and build tooling
- Worker queue management (BullMQ) and API development (tRPC)
- Developer experience improvements and tooling
- Monitoring and observability (Datadog)
- Service reliability and performance optimization
Requirements & Experience
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD systems
- Proficiency with databases, particularly MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and security best practices
- Experience with Node.js/TypeScript backend systems
- Track record of improving developer productivity and experience
- Exceptional communication, self-motivation, and teamwork skills
- Comfortable with ambiguity, generalism, and moving with urgency
Nice to Haves
- Experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript build tooling (Vite, esbuild, swc)
- Experience with BullMQ or similar job queue systems
- Experience with tRPC or similar type-safe API frameworks
- Experience working in fast-growing startups or scale-ups
Why Join Spellbook?
- Autonomy and accountability in a flexible work environment focused on outcomes
- Company-paid group benefits for you and your family, including $1,000 towards mental health support
- Generous time off policies and holiday closures
- Monthly paid meals, an annual wellness allowance, and parental leave top-ups
- Competitive stock option grants as an early employee
Timezone overlap
UTC-8–-4
Benefits
Health, Mental health, PTO, Parental leave, Wellness, Meals, Equity
Open to
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