Job Overview
Location
Remote - Canada
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Engineer
Date Posted
May 21, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Design, architect, and implement scalable data infrastructure on AWS to support both internal analytics and AI-driven product features that enhance contract drafting, review, and negotiation capabilities.
- • Build and maintain compliant, auditable data storage and processing systems using infrastructure-as-code (CDK) to ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements, including data retention and deletion workflows.
- • Develop robust, reproducible data pipelines and orchestration systems using Dagster, Glue, and Athena to generate core datasets that power product functionality and internal decision-making.
- • Own end-to-end lifecycle of data pipelines including backfill, reprocessing, monitoring, and evolution to ensure reliability and scalability as data volume and complexity grow.
- • Collaborate with product, AI, and legal teams to translate ambiguous, high-impact platform requirements into clear, actionable engineering tasks that unblock product delivery and accelerate innovation.
- • Contribute to architectural decisions and documentation for the evolving data platform, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and performance standards.
- • Implement data retention and deletion mechanisms that meet SOC2-aligned audit requirements and legal compliance standards for contract data handled by law firms and in-house legal teams.
- • Operate within a distributed team environment to identify and execute impactful improvements to the data platform that directly enhance AI model performance and user productivity.
- • Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage workflows that integrate with SageMaker for machine learning workflows and product analytics.
- • Ensure all data systems are secure, traceable, and optimized for cost, reliability, and simplicity while balancing tradeoffs between engineering effort and business impact.
- • Drive continuous improvement of data infrastructure by implementing automated monitoring, alerting, and self-healing mechanisms to reduce operational burden and increase system resilience.
- • Translate complex technical requirements into clear documentation and communication for cross-functional stakeholders, including non-engineers in legal and product roles.
- • Participate in platform evolution by proposing and implementing enhancements that reduce latency, improve data quality, and enable faster iteration cycles for AI features.
- • Maintain a strong focus on compliance and data governance, ensuring that all data handling practices align with the legal industry’s stringent requirements for confidentiality and auditability.
- • Proactively identify and resolve system failures, taking ownership of incidents and implementing preventive measures to avoid recurrence.
- • Work independently with minimal supervision, prioritizing tasks based on business impact and technical debt, while collaborating effectively with remote team members across time zones.
- • Support the integration of product usage data into central data warehouses to enable behavioral analytics and feature optimization grounded in real-world lawyer workflows.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering or Data Platform Engineering
- • Exceptional communication skills with ability to clearly document and advocate architectural decisions to diverse audiences
- • Proven ability to take ambiguous, high-impact platform requirements from concept to production-ready system
- • Firm grasp of cloud infrastructure (AWS), distributed systems, and security/compliance considerations
- • Ability to break down complex, vague requirements into clear, shipable enhancements
- • Self-starter and problem-solver motivated by curiosity and team success
🏖️ Benefits
- • Company-paid group benefits for you and your family, including $1,000 towards mental health support
- • Generous time off policies with holiday closure and monthly paid meals
- • Annual wellness allowance and parental leave top-ups
- • Competitive stock option grants as a pivotal early employee
Skills & Technologies
TypeScript
AWS
Docker
Senior
Remote
About Spellbook Legal Inc.
Spellbook Legal is a legal technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to assist legal professionals. Their core product is an AI-powered drafting tool designed to help lawyers generate, review, and analyze legal documents more efficiently. By integrating with existing legal workflows, Spellbook aims to reduce the time and cost associated with legal work, making legal services more accessible and improving productivity for law firms and in-house legal departments. The company operates within the rapidly growing legal tech industry, focusing on innovation and the application of advanced AI to transform legal practice.
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