Software Engineering Manager, Enterprise

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee the team responsible for building, deploying, and customizing Spellbook for enterprise clients.

• Take ownership of the enterprise engineering roadmap, which includes setting priorities, assigning responsibilities, defining milestones, and identifying risks.

• Collaborate with sales and the deal desk during pre-sales activities and ongoing deal negotiations.

• Assess effort and feasibility, clearly communicate trade-offs, and manage the engineering deal-desk process.

• Lead the development of pre-sales prototypes and proofs of concept for integrations, intake processes, and workflows.

• Determine which prototypes to develop, set time constraints, and convert successful prototypes into production plans or reusable product features.

• Mentor, coach, and recruit backend, full-stack, and forward-deployed engineers.

• Ensure timely delivery across teams and manage interdependencies with Core, ACM, and Platform.

• Evaluate designs and critical code, prototype when necessary, and resolve complex technical challenges.

• Work closely with product, design, and customer success teams to influence product decisions and incorporate deployment insights into the core product.

• Implement coding agents and automated reviews to enhance engineering speed and quality.

• Establish practical standards for quality and reliability.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of software development experience, including technical leadership in a startup, scale-up, or similarly dynamic setting.

• Proven experience in leading engineering teams and managing the delivery of production software.

• Familiarity with collaborating with sales or customer-facing teams on enterprise agreements, encompassing scoping, technical due diligence, demonstrations, security and procurement evaluations, and integrations.

• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to prioritize tasks, transparently communicate trade-offs, constructively push back, and make independent decisions.

• Solid product insight and capability to transform vague customer requests into focused action plans and tangible results.

• Proficient in system design with strong backend or full-stack development skills.

• Regular utilization of coding agents or similar AI tools, demonstrating clear improvements in speed or quality.

• Excellent communication skills for aligning engineering, sales, product, and customer interests regarding trade-offs.

• Experience with enterprise SaaS implementations, integrations, or forward-deployed/solutions engineering teams is advantageous.

• Familiarity with security and compliance matters, including SOC 2, data residency, and enterprise procurement, is a plus.

• Background in developing LLM-based products or agent workflows is a bonus.

• Experience in leading rapid prototyping or proof-of-concept initiatives for potential clients is desirable.

• Technical program management experience is a plus.

• Knowledge of legal tech or document-intensive workflows is beneficial.

• Previous founder experience or a role with extensive ownership is preferable.

• Must be legally eligible to work and reside in Canada at the time of application.

• Spellbook does not offer relocation or visa sponsorship assistance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-sponsored group benefits for you and your family.

• $1,000 allocated for mental health support.

• Flexible working environment.

• Holiday closure policy.

• Generous time-off policies.

• Monthly paid meal allowances.

• Annual wellness allowance.

• Parental leave top-ups.

• Competitive stock option grants.

• Equity, health and wellness benefits, and various company programs may be part of the total rewards package.