Principal Engineer

Ironclad • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 seek an experienced principal engineer with strong coding fundamentals, deep platform architecture experience, and a track record of shipping high quality AI-powered products. 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!

Requirements

• 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.
• Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed SaaS or platform architectures (e.g., multi-tenant systems, event-driven systems, or data platforms).
• Passion for software engineering to build and ship great product.
• Experience in 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 with real user feedback.
• A high bar for quality.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
• Alignment with Ironclad’s values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy.

Responsibilities

• 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

• 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
• Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
• Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
• Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
• Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
• Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
• 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
• Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
• Opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed