Staff Software Engineer, Ironclad
Backend
$210-235k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Enterprise software for managing contracts
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Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-235k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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)
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: $334.1m
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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