Staff Software Engineer - AI Incubation

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Algorithms, Common data structures, Docker, Generative AI, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java Programming, Kubernetes-K8s, Node.js, React.js, TypeScript

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer at Ironclad on the AI Incubation team, you'll work cross-functionally to identify business problems and architect, build, and verify solutions. You'll build a platform that lets lawyers scale themselves and their businesses 100x more effectively. 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.

We seek experienced engineers with strong coding fundamentals and a track record of shipping high quality 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!

What you'll do:

• 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

• Lead technical discussions, mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to other engineers on the team

• Grow your teams by interviewing and recruiting talented engineers to Ironclad

• Designing and building data-intensive solutions that helps Ironclad to scale

• 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)

What we look for:

• At least 5+ 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

• Strong software engineering fundamentals: modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms

• Optional experience in taking products from 0 to 1

• Optional experience in building products powered by GenAI or ML

• Optional experience in prompt engineering

• Ironclad’s Values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401k

• Wellness reimbursement

• Take what you need vacation policy

• Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers

Base Salary Range: $190,000 - $210,000

The base salary range represents the minimum and maximum of the salary range for this position based at our San Francisco headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our base salary is just one component of Ironclad’s competitive total rewards package, which also includes equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure), competitive health and wellness benefits, and a commitment to career growth and development.