Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Ironclad is the leading AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform, processing billions of contracts every year.

Every business is powered by contracts, but managing them can slow companies down and cost millions of dollars. Global innovators like L’Oréal, OpenAI, and Salesforce trust Ironclad to transform contracting into a strategic advantage - accelerating revenue, reducing risk, and driving efficiency. It’s the only platform that manages every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA.

We’re building the future of intelligent contracting and writing the narrative for how contracts unlock strategic growth. Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant have consistently recognized Ironclad as a leader in our category. We’ve also been named one of Fortune’s Great Places to Work six years running, featured on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work, and recognized by Forbes’ 50 Most Promising AI Companies.

We’re backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. We’d love for you to join us!

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.

Engineering @ Ironclad

As a 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.

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

• Create and maintain foundational shared services used by all feature teams that reduce redundancy and support accelerated development, stability and scale across Ironclad.

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

• Lead the design and development of backend services within a large-scale monorepo, ensuring modular, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Architect and implement scalable, reliable systems that evolve with Ironclad's product and traffic growth

• Influence architecture decisions across teams and own long-term technical strategy—not just short-term deliverables

• Establish tooling and development patterns that improve productivity, observability, and system health across the monorepo

• Apply a data-driven approach to development—using metrics and experimentation to inform decisions, validate impact, and prioritize work

• Pair this with strong practices in instrumentation, observability, and experimentation (e.g. feature flags, telemetry) to enable measurable outcomes

• Demonstrate familiarity with emerging AI-powered tools and technologies, leveraging them to enhance developer workflows and intelligent system behavior

• Model high engineering standards through clear design docs, clean code, thorough testing, and operational excellence

• Drive execution by moving fast, focusing on impact, and being open in collaboration and feedback

• Champion Ironclad's values—including empathy and integrity—while helping grow the team by mentoring engineers and participating in hiring

• Build systems that contribute to Ironclad's mission of building social value through trustworthy and efficient contracting

• Work on a modern stack built upon: TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, AlloyDB, Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies not required)

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401k

• Wellness reimbursement

• Take what you need vacation policy

• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers

Base Salary Range: $210,000 - $235,000

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.

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