# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Ironclad](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ironclad)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $215k – $235k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres, Kubernetes, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-02-11

> Staff Software Engineer collaborates with product, design, and engineering teams to design, build, and ship features for Ironclad's AI contracting platform. Requires 7+ years experience architecting complex systems and strong leadership in a modern TypeScript/React/Node.js stack.

## Job Description

## Engineering at Ironclad

As a Staff Software Engineer at Ironclad, you’ll partner closely with teammates across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market to uncover high-impact problems and design, build, and ship thoughtful solutions. You’ll help shape the platform that empowers legal teams and business partners to do their best work at scale.

## What you'll do:
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across the company to scope, design, and ship features and systems that meaningfully impact our customers.
- Partner with quality engineers to co-create, evolve, and maintain a thoughtful testing strategy that keeps our product fast, reliable, and resilient.
- Lead technical discussions, share context generously, and mentor teammates through clear, kind feedback and coaching.
- Help grow an inclusive, high-performing team by interviewing and hiring engineers from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.
- Build in a modern stack that includes **TypeScript**, **ReactJS**, **Node.js**, **PostgreSQL**, and **Kubernetes** on **Google Cloud Platform**—no need to have used all of these before; we’ll support you as you learn.

## What we look for:
- At least **7+ years** of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex 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
- Hands-on experience shipping valuable products to production with real user feedback
- A high bar for quality
- Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
- Ironclad’s Values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy

## Compensation
**Base Salary Range: $215,000 - $235,000** (San Francisco headquarters)

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