Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the position

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.

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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Strong coding fundamentals and a track record of shipping high quality products.
• Experience in a highly collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with modern development practices and tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, AlloyDB, Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k
• Wellness reimbursement
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers