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Every business is moving faster, but legal work is still too often scattered across inboxes, chats, documents and disconnected systems.\nWordsmith brings that work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgement matters, and every step is captured as work happens.\nWe 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.\nMore than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling and Sage, use Wordsmith. Backed by over $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI.\nThe role\nWe’re hiring a Support Engineer to provide fast, thoughtful and technically rigorous help to Wordsmith customers.\nYou’ll own technical questions and incidents from first response through to resolution. You’ll understand what the customer is trying to achieve, reproduce reported behaviour, investigate the underlying cause and explain the outcome clearly.\nThis is more than scripted customer support. You’ll be expected to investigate application behaviour at a technical level, including reading logs and tracing issues through the product and its codebase. Where appropriate to your experience, you may also propose and submit code fixes through our normal engineering review and release process.\nWordsmith supports customers globally through a follow-the-sun model. You’ll work the standard hours for your region and hand over unresolved issues clearly to colleagues in other regions. There is no routine expectation that you work another region’s hours.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn technical support requests - triage, investigate and resolve customer questions and incidents from first response to confirmed resolution.\n\nDiagnose problems thoroughly - gather the right context, reproduce reported behaviour, inspect logs and data, and trace issues through the product and codebase.\n\nResolve technical issues - correct configuration or usage problems directly and collaborate with Engineering when a product or infrastructure change is required.\n\nContribute code fixes where appropriate - depending on your experience, propose and submit well-tested fixes through the standard engineering review and deployment process.\n\nCommunicate clearly - give customers timely and accurate updates, explain technical issues without unnecessary jargon and set honest expectations.\n\nManage escalations - bring in Engineering, Product or other specialists when needed while retaining ownership of the case and its communication.\n\nSupport global handovers - document investigation, impact, current status and next actions so colleagues in another region can continue work without losing momentum.\n\nProtect service quality - recognise high-impact incidents quickly, follow the appropriate escalation process and contribute to incident reviews.\n\nBuild customer knowledge - create and maintain troubleshooting guides, known-issue documentation and help-centre content.\n\nReduce repeat problems - identify patterns in support demand and recommend improvements to the product, documentation, tooling and customer experience.\n\nImprove support operations - help develop service levels, escalation paths, reporting and technical-support processes as the function scales.\n\nWhat we’re looking for\nExperience in technical support, product support, software engineering, solutions engineering or another customer-facing technical role.\n\nStrong diagnostic ability - you can work methodically from symptoms to root cause rather than relying on guesswork.\n\nA working understanding of modern web applications, APIs, authentication, integrations and common browser or network issues.\n\nExperience using diagnostic information such as application logs, monitoring tools, browser developer tools and database queries.\n\nEnough familiarity with software code to navigate a codebase, follow application logic and use it to investigate reported behaviour.\n\nClear customer communication - you can remain calm under pressure, set expectations honestly and explain complex issues at the right level of detail.\n\nStrong ownership - you remain responsible for moving an issue forward even when other teams need to contribute.\n\nSound prioritisation - you can assess urgency and customer impact and recognise when an issue requires immediate escalation.\n\nCare and precision - you document what you tested, avoid unsupported conclusions and confirm that the customer’s problem has actually been resolved.\n\nInterest in AI systems - you’re curious about how AI-enabled products behave and comfortable investigating issues that may not always be deterministic.\n\nNo legal background is required, but you should be motivated to learn how in-house legal teams work.\n\nDesirable, but not essential\nExperience writing and debugging production software.\n\nThe ability to create automated tests and submit code fixes for engineering review.\n\nExperience supporting AI-enabled or data-intensive applications.\n\nFamiliarity with incident-management and observability tools.\n\nHow we work\nWe’re an in-person team based in Edinburgh. You should expect to work from the office as your default.\nWe support customers globally using a follow-the-sun model. You’ll work the normal hours agreed for your region and create clear handovers when an issue needs to continue beyond them. Any exceptional on-call or out-of-hours arrangements would be agreed and communicated separately.\nWe set a high bar, move quickly and give people meaningful ownership. Support is a core part of the product experience, and we expect it to be technically credible, responsive and human.\nYou’ll work closely with Engineering, Product, Transformation and Customer Success. Customer Success owns adoption and customer health; Transformation owns implementation; Account Management owns renewals and commercial growth; and Support Engineering owns technical investigation and resolution.\nWhy Wordsmith\nYou’ll support a fast-growing product used for important work inside some of the world’s most ambitious organisations.\nBecause we’re building in a new technical category, the problems are interesting. 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