Senior Staff Software Engineer

What you'll do

• 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

What we look for

• 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
• A high bar for quality
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
• Ironclad’s Values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy

Base Salary Range: $250,000 - $270,000

The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.