Employee Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we're 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're 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're building one of the defining companies in legal AI.

🏢 About Wordsmith

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we're 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're 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're building one of the defining companies in legal AI.

🎯 The Role

You'll own onboarding, access, devices and offboarding as one connected system, and build the tooling — including coding agent workflows — that removes the manual steps at every stage. You'll be hands-on with the physical side of the job too, in the Edinburgh office.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build a joiner pipeline that reads a new hire from Humaans, creates their identity in Okta, assigns app access by group rule, and triggers zero-touch laptop enrolment in Jamf — no manual steps
• Build a Slack assistant, backed by a coding agent, that handles requests like “I need access to X” or “my laptop is slow” and either fixes them or routes them, resolving most without a human
• Build a hardware vending machine for the Edinburgh office that dispenses chargers, dongles, headsets and loan laptops against an employee's identity, with stock reordered automatically
• Write scripts and infrastructure as code that configure devices, enforce security baselines, and produce compliance evidence on their own
• Build an offboarding flow that revokes access everywhere, wipes and reclaims the device, and files the record the moment someone is marked as a leaver

📌 Required Qualifications

• You write real code and automate with APIs and scripts — Python, Bash or TypeScript. This isn't optional.
• You think in systems: identity, access, data flows and lifecycle
• You're comfortable using AI coding agents to build and ship tooling fast
• You care about security and doing things properly, not just quickly
• You're happy working on-site in Edinburgh and hands-on with real hardware

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Exposure to identity and device tooling such as Okta, Google Workspace or Jamf
• Experience with SOC 2 or security compliance
• Having run or automated onboarding, endpoints or internal tools before

🎁 Benefits

Real ownership over the platform that runs every Wordsmith employee, from identity to hardware. Freedom to build over buy — you ship the tooling, not just work the tickets. We'll teach you the IT and security domain — you bring the instinct to automate.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role is on-site in Edinburgh, reporting into Security — you'll be hands-on with the actual fleet, not just its dashboards. It's a high-trust environment: you own the systems you build, end to end, with light process and a bias toward shipping. This isn't a back-room coding role. You own real employee outcomes and the physical office setup alongside the software.