*This is an existing vacancyAbout the RoleWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds, deploys and customizes Spellbook for our enterprise customers. You'll own engineering's side of enterprise: what we build, what we defer, and how we design the solutions.
This is a hybrid of engineering manager and technical program lead. You'll manage and grow a team of backend, full-stack, and forward-deployed engineers. You'll also run the plan: turn deal-driven requests and roadmap bets into a clear, sequenced set of priorities, and keep delivery on track across teams.
Enterprise work is tactical and technical. Large deals bring urgent asks, integrations and customization requirements, and data residency needs. Many deals are won with a working prototype in front of the customer, so you'll lead pre-sales prototyping: deciding what to demo, building it fast, and knowing when a prototype should become product. You'll be the person who works closely with sales, assesses fast, makes the call, and protects the team's focus when trade-offs are needed.
You'll be the one who gives the team direction, judgment, and momentum.
Responsibilities- Own the Enterprise engineering plan. Turn customer asks and roadmap bets into a prioritized plan with clear owners, milestones, and risks.
- Partner with sales and the deal desk. Join pre-sales and active deal discussions, size effort and feasibility quickly, and make tradeoffs transparent. Run the deal-desk process from engineering's side: intake, decision heuristics, and a clear path for the big requests we commit to.
- Lead pre-sales prototyping. Work with sales, FDEs, and engineers to scope and build fast prototypes and proofs of concept for large deals (integrations, intake flows, workflows). Decide which ones are worth building, keep them time-boxed, and turn the winners into production plans or reusable product capabilities.
- Lead, coach, and grow engineers across backend, full-stack, and forward-deployed roles, and hire the next ones. Set a high bar for performance without adding unnecessary process.
- Drive delivery across teams. Manage dependencies with Core, ACM, and Platform, and surface blockers early.
- Stay technical. Review designs and critical code, prototype when it helps, and step in on the hardest problems.
- Partner with product, design, and customer success to decide what to build and to feed what we learn from deployments back into the core product.
- Raise the team's AI velocity. Adopt coding agents and automated review where they improve speed or quality, and define practical standards for quality and reliability.
Qualifications- 5+ years of software development experience, including technical leadership in a startup, scale-up, or other fast-moving environment.
- Experience leading engineers and owning delivery of production software.
- Experience working with sales or customer-facing teams on enterprise deals: scoping, technical due diligence, demos, security and procurement reviews, integrations.
- Sound judgement. A record of prioritizing ruthlessly, making tradeoffs transparent, pushing back constructively on sales or customers when needed, and making good calls without waiting for direction.
- Strong product sense. You can turn ambiguous customer asks into focused plans and shipped results.
- Strong system design and backend or full-stack skills
- Regular use of coding agents or similar AI tools, with concrete examples of improving speed or quality.
- Clear communicator who aligns engineering, sales, product, and customers around tradeoffs.
Nice to haves- Experience with enterprise SaaS deployments, integrations (DMS, CRM, procurement systems), or forward deployed / solutions engineering teams.
- Experience with security and compliance (SOC 2, data residency, enterprise procurement).
- Experience building LLM-based products or agent workflows.
- Experience leading rapid prototyping or proof-of-concept work for prospects, including with coding agents.
- Technical program management experience.
- Legal tech or document-heavy workflow experience.
- Founder experience or another role with broad ownership.
This role is not subject to Ontario's salary range disclosure requirement, as total compensation exceeds the threshold set out in the exemption. We're happy to discuss compensation details directly with candidates as the process progresses.
WHY JOIN SPELLBOOK?- 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
