# Senior Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Ironclad](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ironclad)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $250k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AI, Backend Development
**Posted:** 2026-05-11

> Leads architecture and ownership of document/record service for AI-powered contract platform, partnering cross-functionally to build scalable backend systems and drive AI innovation. Requires 7+ years experience in complex backend systems.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Serve as the Technical Lead Architect and owner of Ironclad's document and record service, driving the technical strategy and decisions that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance
- Partner across engineering teams, ensuring the document service unlocks new feature capabilities and **AI innovation**
- Mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other engineers and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence
- Collaborate cross functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to spec, design, and build features and systems
- Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy
- Grow your teams by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad
- Work on a modern stack built upon: **TypeScript**, **Node.js**, **PostgreSQL**, **Temporal**, and **Docker** containers in **Kubernetes** on **Google Cloud Platform**
- Build and apply **AI** tools and features to power the future of contract intelligence

## What we look for
- At least **7 years** of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex (**backend/platform**) systems (a formal degree is not required, we are prioritizing industry experience)
- Leadership across teams and a drive towards improving overall technical architecture and achieving company-wide goals
- Passion for software engineering to build and ship great product
- Experience leveraging **AI** tooling across a team to improve execution quality and velocity
- Hands-on experience shipping valuable products to production with real user feedback
- A high bar for quality
- Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills

## Compensation
**Base Salary Range: $250,000 - $270,000**

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