--- title: 'Product Engineer at Wordsmith AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-engineer-wordsmith-ai-edinburgh-y4nymfas46kw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Product Engineer at Wordsmith AI - **Company:** Wordsmith AI - **Location:** Edinburgh, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-04-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wordsmith/cd8c2080-0eb3-4390-a78a-cec8447c8bb7/application **Skills:** React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Node, AWS, LLMs, Prompt design, AI workflows, Internal tools development, Complex workflow development > Build product features end-to-end across frontend and backend, integrating AI-native workflows using LLMs and structured data. Collaborate with design, product, and legal engineers to ship quickly, experiment with new approaches, and define how AI is used in the product. ## Job description Product Engineer Edinburgh/London Wordsmith Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we are growing fast. We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era. Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents, and disconnected systems. Wordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens. We are built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with. More than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling, and Sage, use Wordsmith. Backed by $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe, and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI. ## Why this role is different Our engineering team is not using AI as a feature. It’s how we build. Engineers here are expected to explore, test, and apply AI directly in how we design and ship product. There’s no heavy process, no layers of approval, and no hesitation around new approaches. If something works, we use it. If it doesn’t, we move on quickly. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, shape how AI is used in the product, and push beyond the patterns most teams are still stuck in. ## The Role You’ll build product features end to end, working across frontend and backend, and ship AI-native workflows used by real customers. You’ll work closely with design, product, and legal engineers to turn complex problems into simple, high-quality user experiences. This is a role for someone who wants to move fast, stay close to users, and have a real impact on what gets built. ## What you’ll do - Own features end to end across frontend and backend - Build AI-native workflows using LLMs and structured data - Collaborate closely with design, product, and legal engineering - Ship quickly, learn from users, and iterate - Contribute to architecture, tooling, and engineering practices - Help define how we use AI across the product ## What we’re looking for - 4+ years building high-quality web products - Strong experience with modern frontend tools (React, Next.js, TypeScript) - Backend experience (Python, Node, AWS or similar) - Strong product instincts — you care about UX, clarity, and outcomes - Comfortable working in fast-moving environments with evolving systems - Interest in AI and how it changes how software is built Bonus: - Experience with LLMs, prompt design, or AI workflows - Background in building internal tools or complex workflows ## How we work We’re an in-office team in Edinburgh/London. We work together because it helps us build faster, collaborate closely, and make better product decisions. You should expect to be in the office as your default. This is a high trust environment. Engineers have real ownership over what they build and how they build it. We keep process light and focus on shipping, learning, and improving quickly. ## What you can expect - Real ownership over product and technical decisions - The chance to work at the frontier of AI-native product development - A team of engineers, designers, and domain experts working closely together - Competitive salary and meaningful equity ## Why Wordsmith We’re growing quickly, shipping fast, and solving real problems for customers. The product is evolving rapidly, and engineering plays a central role in how far and how fast we can go. If you want to build with AI as a core part of your workflow, not just a layer on top, this is a strong place to do it. ## About Wordsmith AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wordsmith provides an AI-native legal operations platform that captures, triages, resolves, and records every legal request from the business, enabling in-house legal teams to work at the speed of AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Ross McNairn (CEO), Volodymyr Giginiak (CTO), Robbie Falkenthal (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology (LegalTech), Enterprise AI, Workflow Automation - **Target customers**: In-house legal departments at mid-to-large enterprises across all industries (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the Northstar for legal intelligence in business — to bring the legal function in-house by making it measurable, compressible, and owned, just as every other major corporate cost centre has been. ## Products & Services - **The Wordsmith Platform (Legal Operations System)**: An end-to-end AI-native system built around four core workflows: **Receive** (captures legal requests from Slack, email, Salesforce, Teams, and procurement systems), **Route** (assigns ownership, priority, and context), **Resolve** (automates routine legal work using AI agents — drafting, redlining, research, translation — while escalating complex decisions to lawyers), and **Record** (logs every decision, action, and rationale in real time for audit-ready governance). - **Contract Review & Workflow Integration**: End-to-end contract review embedded directly into business tools like Slack, Gmail, and procurement systems. Reviews are collaborative and web-native. - **Word Integration**: A plugin allowing lawyers to review, redline, draft, research, and translate without leaving Microsoft Word. - **AI Agents**: Chain drafting into a full end-to-end workflow — receive the request, draft the document, route for approval, and send — with no manual step required. - **Global Legal Intelligence Engine**: Covers hundreds of trusted sources across 130+ jurisdictions, combined with deep knowledge of the customer’s own entities, risk profile, and prior positions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$100M** across two rounds. Last round: **€60.2M ($70M) Series B** (announced June 2026). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Highland Europe, General Catalyst (the firms behind Figma, Stripe, Discord, Airbnb, Revolut, and Canva). - **Growth Signals**: - Used by **500+ organisations globally**, including major enterprises such as **BT, Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, and Canva**. - Reports that **Trustpilot cut contract review time by 85%** using the platform. - Planning to grow workforce from ~100 to **~300 employees**, with significant **US market expansion**. - Founded in 2023 and achieved this scale in just over two years. ## Competitive Advantages - **Category-defining position**: Wordsmith is not a legal copilot for individual lawyers — it is an **operating system for the entire in-house legal function**, managing complete request flows across the organisation. This system-level approach is a structural shift away from traditional point-tools. - **Conflict-free business model**: Wordsmith sits on the side of the *buyer* of legal services (the in-house team), not the *seller* (law firms). All other legacy tools were built to serve law firms. Wordsmith’s incentives are aligned with removing friction and cost for the enterprise. - **Vertical-first AI strategy**: Deeply specialised in legal workflows rather than a generalist AI platform, making the product deeply relevant and defensible in a $1.1T global legal market. - **Founding team**: Led by a CEO (Ross McNairn), CTO (Volodymyr Giginiak), and COO (Robbie Falkenthal) who blend legal domain expertise with deep AI and engineering capability. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale globally, with a US expansion priority**: The Series B is explicitly earmarked to accelerate growth in the US market. - **Hire exceptional talent**: Grow the team to ~300 people, maintaining a “fewer, better people” philosophy — a small group of brilliant specialists rather than a crowd of generalists. - **Product depth**: Continue to invest in AI agents, global legal intelligence, and deeper integration into enterprise workflows (Slack, Salesforce, Word, Gmail). - **Move beyond task assistance to full automation**: The stated vision is to make legal “the last black box” in the enterprise — measurable, compressed, and owned internally. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Philosophy**: Described as a team of “lawyers and engineers blending two worlds.” Core operating principles include: **“fewer, better people”** (small, elite teams), **relentless focus on simplicity**, and building products that are so elegant they “feel like magic.” The company explicitly values **judgment** as the key differentiator in an AI-powered world. - **Growth Trajectory**: A rare stage — Series B with $100M in funding, a small enough team that individual contributions matter every day, and early enough to shape how the company builds. Significant US expansion ahead. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid (roles listed for Edinburgh and London). The hiring process is transparent and values speed: a 30-min screening call, a 45-min technical interview, a short take-home challenge (a couple of hours), and a culture interview. - **Funding Backing**: Backed by the same investors who backed Figma, Stripe, and Canva — strong signal of ambition and long-term thinking. - **Impact**: Working on a problem that is “genuinely new” — building the platform to run in-house legal teams, which is a category that did not exist before AI made it possible. ## Sources 1. [wordsmith.ai](https://www.wordsmith.ai/) 2. [wordsmith.ai/company](https://www.wordsmith.ai/company) 3. [wordsmith.ai/careers](https://www.wordsmith.ai/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/wordsmith-ai) 5. 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