Principal Engineer

The role

You will architect, build, and verify solutions to identify business problems. You will evolve a platform using AI to help lawyers scale their businesses.

What you will do

• Collaborate cross functionally to spec, design, architect and build features and systems
• Own and evolve core platform architecture to support AI capabilities
• Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy
• Lead technical discussions, mentor and provide feedback to other engineers
• Grow the team by interviewing and recruiting engineers
• Work on a modern stack including TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform
• Build AI solutions and apply AI tools and features like LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and classification
• Drive end-to-end delivery of AI-powered product experiences

Required qualifications

• At least 10+ years of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
• Experience operating at a Principal level with a track record of driving technical strategy and architectural evolution
• Demonstrated leadership across teams
• Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed SaaS or platform architectures
• Experience in building AI applications and shipping AI-powered product features to production
• Hands-on experience shipping valuable products to production with real user feedback
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills
• Alignment with Ironclad’s values: drive, intent, integrity, and empathy

Nice to have

• LLM integration, retrieval, experimentation, and measurement

Benefits

• 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents
• Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
• Family forming support through Maven
• Paid time off
• Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and cell phone use
• Mental health support through Modern Health
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match
• Regular team events

About the company

Ironclad is building AI on enterprise contract datasets. The company is recognized as a leader in Contract Lifecycle Management and is backed by investors including Accel, Y Combinator, and Sequoia.