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Senior Backend / AI Systems Engineer at spellbook.com

Department: Engineering

Language
Setup
Remote
Location
Kitchener, Ontario
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Spellbook is hiring a Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend systems powering its AI copilot for legal contract work. The role focuses on product-facing services, low-latency search and inference, RAG retrieval, orchestration, reliability, rate limiting, retries, fallbacks, and production performance. It requires 5+ years of production backend experience, strong distributed-systems and NoSQL skills, and familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, Express, tRPC, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, and CDK. The role is limited to candidates in Ontario and offers flexible work, benefits, and equity.

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