Senior Staff Software Engineer

This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ironclad, you'll work cross-functionally to identify business problems and architect, build, and verify solutions. You'll build a platform that lets lawyers scale themselves and their businesses 100x more effectively. At Ironclad, we’ve built a product that brings a two thousand year old profession into the digital age, and you’ll play a pivotal role in driving the foundation forward by building the wave of AI powered contract intelligence features.

We seek experienced engineers with strong coding fundamentals and a track record of shipping high quality products. We work in a highly collaborative environment, and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture and offer remote work flexibility. If you’d like to join us on our mission to build the product that legal teams love, let’s talk!

- Serve as the Technical Lead Architect and owner of Ironclad’s document and record service, driving the technical strategy and decisions that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance

- Partner across engineering teams, ensuring the document service unlocks new feature capabilities and AI innovation

- Mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other engineers and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence

- Collaborate cross functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to spec, design, and build features and systems

- Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy

- Grow your teams by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad

- Work on a modern stack built upon: TypeScript, Node.js, PostgresSQL, Temporal, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies not required)

- Build and apply AI tools and features to power the future of contract intelligence

- At least 7 years of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex (backend/platform) systems (a formal degree is not required, we are prioritizing industry experience)

- Leadership across teams and a drive towards improving overall technical architecture and achieving company-wide goals

- Passion for software engineering to build and ship great product

- Experience leveraging AI tooling across a team to improve execution quality and velocity

- Hands-on experience shipping valuable products to production with real user feedback