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Senior Staff Software Engineer

250k – 270kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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

Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLTemporalKubernetesDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformAIbackend development
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