Ironclad

Principal Engineer

Ironclad
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5 months ago

Base Salary

$285k - $315k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to specify, design, architect, and build features and systems.
  • Own and evolve core platform architecture, including service boundaries, data models, multi-tenant scale, and reliability.
  • Define, build, and maintain testing strategy with quality engineers.
  • Lead technical discussions and mentor and provide feedback to engineers.
  • Interview and recruit talented engineers to grow the team.
  • Build on a stack of TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Build AI solutions using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and classification.
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of AI-powered product experiences from problem definition and experimentation through reliable, scalable production systems.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of software experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex systems.
  • Principal-level experience driving technical strategy and architectural evolution across entire organizations.
  • Demonstrated cross-team leadership and a record of improving technical architecture and company-wide outcomes.
  • Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed SaaS or platform architectures, including multi-tenant systems, event-driven systems, or data platforms.
  • Experience building AI applications and shipping AI-powered product features to production, ideally including LLM integration, retrieval, experimentation, and measurement.
  • Hands-on experience shipping valuable products to production using real user feedback.
  • Strong coding fundamentals and deep platform architecture experience.
  • Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
  • A high bar for software quality and alignment with Ironclad’s values.
  • A formal degree is not required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work with required office attendance at least twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus possible additional in-office events.
  • 100% health coverage for employees and 75% dependent coverage with buy-up options for medical, dental, and vision.
  • Gender-neutral parental leave, compassionate leave, and family-forming support through Maven.
  • Paid time off and monthly wellbeing, hybrid-work, and applicable cell-phone stipends.
  • Mental health support through Modern Health.
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits and a 401(k) plan with employer match for US employees.
  • Regular team events and opportunities for career growth and development.
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About Ironclad

501-1,000 employees

Ironclad provides a SaaS contract lifecycle management platform for legal, sales, procurement, and finance teams, using AI to automate drafting, workflows, and analytics. It sells enterprise subscriptions that centralize contract creation, negotiation, e-signature, and a searchable repository with reporting. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, with customers including the Associated Press and Rivian.

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