Software Engineer, Ironclad
Developer Productivity
$150-165k
+ Equity + Bonus
Enterprise software for managing contracts
Be an early applicant
Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-165k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience, including internships or significant projects. A formal degree is not required
- Programming experience in TypeScript or JavaScript, plus Go or Python
- Comfort with shell scripting and the command line
- Working knowledge of Git and CI/CD concepts
- An interest in developer tooling, infrastructure, and helping other engineers work more effectively
- Clear communication and strong collaboration skills
- Alignment with Ironclad’s values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy
Desirable
- Kubernetes, Docker, or SRE practices such as monitoring and incident response
- Webpack, Jest, Vitest, Bazel, or Backstage
- Cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
What the job involves
- Build the tools that help every Ironclad engineer move from an idea to production
- Our Developer Productivity team owns local development tooling, build and test systems, release automation, and our Backstage developer portal
- We treat developer tooling as a product, with our fellow engineers as its users
- You’ll work directly with them to understand friction, try improvements, and see the impact in their daily work
- We value practical engineering judgment: finding small, effective solutions, simplifying systems, and removing unnecessary work
- With guidance from Senior and Staff engineers, you’ll own scoped improvements from investigation through rollout
- We’re looking for an engineer with solid coding fundamentals, an interest in infrastructure, and a drive to improve the developer experience
- We collaborate closely and share responsibility for supporting the tools we own
- Build and maintain tooling for engineers’ local development environments
- Make builds and tests faster and more reliable, and troubleshoot build and CI failures
- Improve Kubernetes tooling so product teams can make routine application changes independently
- Develop catalog entries, templates, and plugins for our Backstage developer portal
- Support releases through Kargo and improve release automation
- Join the team’s support rotation: help engineers, document solutions, and turn recurring problems into tooling improvements
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
Our take
Business contracting is often inefficient and messy, with approvals required from various stakeholders and many processes still paper-based. Ironclad is a platform that digitises, automates, and streamlines contract workflows, allowing legal teams to focus on legal work rather than paperwork. Its platform features collaborative tools that facilitate business operations and extract and catalogue contract metadata, making information easier to access and act upon. Its enterprise customers include Dropbox, Mastercard, Pixar, Fox, and L’Oréal.
Despite its success, Ironclad faces competition in the $3.68 billion contract lifecycle management industry from major players like DocuSign and emerging ones like Contractbook. The company recently announced Ironclad Signature, marking its entry into the $13 billion eSignature market. The new feature speeds up the signature process by an estimated 80% and provides summaries and approval histories to users. This new tool is expected to strengthen Ironclad's position in the sell-side contract lifecycle management market.
Additionally, Ironclad introduced value-based pricing, charging only for completed, signed agreements, unlike other providers who charge for every signature packet sent out. Ironclad, backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND, remains committed to innovating and maintaining its leadership in the contract lifecycle management space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $334.3m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- Wellness reimbursement
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Cai GoGwilt
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Studied HSPS at Cambridge, and Computer Science at MIT. Was a Summer Technology Analayst at Goldman Sachs. Worked as a Research Assistant at MIT. Was a Software Engineer at Palantir.
Jason Boehmig
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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