Software Engineer Intern, Ironclad
Hourly Pay Rate $45 – $50 per hour
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Enterprise software for managing contracts
Open for applications
Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Hourly Pay Rate $45 – $50 per hour
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
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, with an expected graduation date after the internship term
- Have foundational knowledge in computer science and software engineering, including data structures, algorithms, and basic systems or web concepts (from coursework, projects, or prior experience)
- Comfortable programming in at least one modern language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, or Go) and interested in learning our stack on the job
- Demonstrated experience through projects, internships, hackathons, or open‑source contributions where you shipped something real and iterated based on feedback
- Strong problem‑solving skills and a bias toward action — you break down ambiguous problems, ask thoughtful questions, and move ideas forward collaboratively
- Clear, kind communicator who enjoys working in cross‑functional teams and can explain technical concepts to non‑technical partners when needed
- Excited to learn about contracts, legal workflows, and AI‑powered productivity tools, even if you don’t have prior domain experience
- Embody Ironclad’s values of drive, intent, integrity, and empathy in how you work and collaborate
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Intern at Ironclad, you’ll work across the team to identify business problems and design, build, and verify solutions
- You’ll be building a platform that lets legal teams scale themselves and their businesses 100x more effectively, bringing a two‑thousand‑year‑old profession into the digital age
- You’ll work on a modern stack that includes technologies like TypeScript, React, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies is a plus, but not required)
- We work in a highly collaborative environment and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture where interns ship real product and get meaningful mentorship, not busy work
- We’re looking for Software Engineer Interns who are excited to learn, ship real features, and have an end‑to‑end impact on our product
- You’ll join a Product Engineering Team (for example, AI, core product, workflow, or platform) and contribute to projects that touch real customers at companies around the world
- You’ll pair closely with full‑time engineers, product managers, designers, and quality engineers to understand user problems, prototype solutions, and iterate quickly based on feedback
- Design, build, and ship product features as part of a cross‑functional product team (engineering, product, design, QE)
- Collaborate with mentors and teammates to break down ambiguous problems into clear, scoped projects you can execute on during the internship
- Write clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code in one or more of our core languages (e.g., TypeScript, Java, Python), and participate in code reviews where you both give and receive feedback
- Work across the stack (frontend, backend, or services) depending on team needs and your interests, with guidance from your mentor and manager
- Instrument and monitor your work in production, using metrics and logs to understand impact and reliability, and help debug issues when they arise
- Partner with product and design to understand user needs, test hypotheses, and iterate quickly on solutions that create real value for legal, sales, and operations teams
- Contribute to team culture, documentation, and best practices so future interns and engineers can build on what you’ve shipped
- Format: Full‑time, 40 hours/week
- Duration: ~12 weeks (summer), with flexibility based on academic calendar
- Mentorship: You’ll be paired with an engineer mentor and have regular 1:1s with your manager, as well as access to intern programming, tech talks, and networking with leaders across EPD (Engineering, Product, Design)
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 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
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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