About the position
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!
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Strong coding fundamentals and a track record of shipping high quality products.
- Experience with modern stack technologies such as TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, AlloyDB, Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with emerging AI-powered tools and technologies.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k
- Wellness reimbursement
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
