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# Senior Staff Software Engineer at Ironclad

- **Company:** Ironclad
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $250k–$270k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ironcladhq/f01fb172-7a43-4686-b897-10f1288fbcd0/application

**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, PostgresSQL, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, AI tooling

> Serve as Technical Lead Architect for Ironclad's document and record service, driving technical strategy for reliability and scalability. Build and maintain a modern stack including TypeScript, Node.js, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform to power AI-driven contract intelligence features.

## Job description

Ironclad is the leading AI contracting platform that transforms agreements into assets. Contracts move faster, insights surface instantly, and agents push work forward, all with you in control. Whether you’re buying or selling, Ironclad unifies the entire process on one intelligent platform, providing leaders with the visibility they need to stay one step ahead. That’s why the world’s most transformative organizations, from Rivian to the World Health Organization and the Associated Press, trust Ironclad to accelerate their business.

We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton. For more information, visit [www.ironcladapp.com](http://www.ironcladapp.com) or follow us on LinkedIn.

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

Engineering @ Ironclad 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!

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.

US Full-Time Employee Benefits at Ironclad:

- 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
- Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
- Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
- Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
- Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
- Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
- 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
- Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
- And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

**UK Employee-specific benefits are included on our UK job postings

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

## About Ironclad

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ironclad provides an AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that helps legal and business teams draft, negotiate, manage, and analyze contracts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Series E)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Jason Boehmig (CEO) and Cai Wangwilt (engineer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Legal Technology, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Enterprise Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily legal departments and business teams within mid-market to large enterprises
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Keep Contracts Moving, and Business Growing."

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Ironclad AI Platform**: The core SaaS platform for creating, reviewing, negotiating, signing (with native eSignature), and managing contracts. Includes AI-powered features for automation, data extraction, and analytics.
- **Jurist (AI Assistant)**: An agentic AI assistant designed for legal work that can draft, edit, summarize, translate, and explain contracts with transparent reasoning.
- **AI Assist**: A GPT-4-powered tool for contract negotiation that flags risk, drafts clauses, and performs first-pass redlining.
- **Smart Import**: An AI tool to upload, tag, and index existing contracts, making them searchable and surfacing key insights.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Series E raised in 2024, total funding of $334.1M).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $334.1M across 10 rounds; over 2 billion contracts processed on the platform.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel (led Series A), Sequoia Capital (led Series B), Y Combinator (led Series C), and others. Integrates with Salesforce, Coupa, Ramp, and many other tools.
- **Growth Signals**: Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CLM; named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: CLM Platforms, Q1 2025; named a Digital World Class CLM Provider by The Hackett Group; employee headcount grew by 32% YoY (632 employees); operates in 8 countries (US, UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, and more); named Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- Specific moats or differentiators that make them hard to compete with: Strong industry analyst recognition (Gartner, Forrester, Hackett Group Leaders); purpose-built AI (Jurist) with agentic capabilities for legal work; native eSignature integrated into the CLM; strong ecosystem of integrations with major enterprise tools; processed 2 billion+ contracts, providing a massive data advantage for AI training.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities and direction for growth: Deepening AI capabilities across the entire contract lifecycle (from drafting to analysis); expanding its agentic AI assistant, Jurist; growing its enterprise customer base globally (especially EMEA from London office); leveraging its scale (billions of contracts) to improve AI accuracy and value.

## Why Work Here
- Culture highlights relevant to job seekers: Core values of Empathy, Intent, Drive, and Integrity. Recognized as an award-winning workplace by Fast Company ("Best Workplace for Innovators" in 2024, "Most Innovative Companies" in 2026), Fortune ("Best Place to Work Bay Area" 2023, 2024), and Business Insider ("Start-ups to Bet Your Career On" 2023).
- Remote/hybrid/office policy: Hybrid company with offices in San Francisco (HQ in Financial District), New York (Flatiron), and London. They hire remotely for select roles but prioritize in-person collaboration around hubs.
- Notable perks or engineering culture: 100% health insurance coverage for employees (medical, dental, vision), monthly stipends for wellness/mental health (Modern Health) and hybrid work/cell phone, family-forming support (Maven) and generous gender-neutral parental leave, flexible PTO, 401(k) plan with Fidelity.

## Sources
1. [Ironclad Website](https://ironcladapp.com/)
2. [Ironclad Careers Page](https://ironcladapp.com/careers)
3. [Ironclad About Us](https://ironcladapp.com/about-us)
4. [Ironclad LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ironclad-inc-)
5. [Built In Profile](https://builtin.com/company/ironclad)

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