Principal Engineer

• As a Principal Engineer at Ironclad, you’ll work cross-functionally to identify business problems and architect, build, and verify solutions. You’ll architect and evolve a platform that lets lawyers scale themselves and their businesses 100x more effectively, with AI at the core
• 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 by building the next wave of AI-powered contract intelligence features and the platform capabilities that support them
• We work in a highly collaborative environment, and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture and offer remote work flexibility. If you’d like to join us on our mission to build the product that legal teams love, let’s talk!
• Collaborate cross functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to spec, design, architect and build features and systems
• Own and evolve core platform architecture (service boundaries, data models, multi-tenant scale, reliability) to support AI capabilities safely and efficiently across our product surface area
• Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy
• Lead technical discussions, mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other engineers on the team
• Grow the team by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad
• Work on a modern stack built upon: TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies not required)
• Build AI solutions and apply AI tools and features (e.g., LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and classification) to power the future of contract intelligence
• Drive end-to-end delivery of AI-powered product experiences, from problem definition and experimentation to reliable, scalable production systems

Benefits

• Dental, and vision insurance
• 401K
• Wellness reimbursement
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance- We seek an experienced principal engineer with strong coding fundamentals, deep platform architecture experience, and a track record of shipping high quality AI-powered products
• A high bar for quality
• Experience in building AI applications and shipping AI-powered product features to production (ideally including LLM integration, retrieval, experimentation, and measurement)
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
• Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed SaaS or platform architectures (e.g., multi-tenant systems, event-driven systems, or data platforms)
• Alignment with Ironclad’s values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy
• Experience operating at a Principal , with a track record of driving technical strategy and architectural evolution across entire organizations
• Hands-on experience shipping valuable products to production with real user feedback
• Passion for software engineering to build and ship great product
• At least 10+ years of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems (a formal degree is not required, we are prioritizing industry experience)
• Demonstrated leadership across teams and a drive towards improving overall technical architecture and achieving company-wide goals