Staff Software Engineer, Ironclad
Search & Discovery
$210-235k
+ Equity
Enterprise software for managing contracts
Open for applications
Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$210-235k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone with a strong background in search technologies and a track record of shipping high-quality, high-performance systems
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex systems
- Expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning. You have a deep understanding of concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search
- Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr), and familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG)
- Experience with NLP/ML models (e.g., transformers, embeddings), including fine-tuning and relevance feedback
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to advise management on roadmap decisions and mentor junior team members
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for shipping great products and a drive to improve technical architecture
- Ironclad’s Values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer at Ironclad, you'll be at the core of our platform, directly impacting how users search and interact with their contract data
- You’ll be responsible for architecting and building the next-generation, scalable search ecosystem that empowers legal teams to navigate a massive corpus of complex, structured and unstructured data with speed and accuracy
- 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 work in a highly collaborative environment, and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture. If you’d like to join us on our mission to build the product that legal teams love, let’s talk!
- Collaborate cross-functionally with designers, product managers, and other engineers to spec, design, and build features and systems for our core search platform
- Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy
- Lead, mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other team members
- Grow your teams by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad
- Work on a modern stack built upon: TypeScript, Python, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies not required)
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. Ironclad’s platform features collaborative tools that facilitate business operations and extract and catalog 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 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 $25 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
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Cai GoGwilt
(CTO & Chief Architect)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
(CEO)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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