Senior Software Engineer - Search and Discovery

Ironclad is the leading AI contracting platform that transforms agreements into assets. Contracts move faster, insights surface instantly, and agents push work forward, all with you in control. Whether you’re buying or selling, Ironclad unifies the entire process on one intelligent platform, providing leaders with the visibility they need to stay one step ahead. That’s why the world’s most transformative organizations, from Rivian to the World Health Organization and the Associated Press, trust Ironclad to accelerate their business.

We’re consistently recognized as a leader in the industry: a Leader in the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecycle Management, a Fortune Great Place to Work, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Workplaces. Ironclad has also been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Business Insider’s list of Companies to Bet Your Career On. We’re backed by leading investors including Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, BOND, and Franklin Templeton. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Engineering @ Ironclad

As a Senior Front-end Engineer at Ironclad, 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. We are looking for front-end specialists who view UI performance as a core engineering challenge. If you are passionate about mastering the nuances of rendering cycles, optimizing critical path CSS, and building accessible, world-class experiences within a collaborative, hyper-growth culture that values remote flexibility and technical excellence, we want to build the future of the legal industry with you.

Search and Discovery

We believe that 'legal software' shouldn't feel like legacy software. Our mission is to accelerate the pace of global business by delivering insightful, contract-level intelligence to users exactly when they need it.

The Search & Discovery team is specifically obsessed with the craft of bubbling up that intelligence through an intuitive features and elegant UI. In this role, you aren’t just 'building components'—you are architecting the entire feature lifecycle. You will design the interfaces & middleware that allow our users to visualize, edit, and extract complex legal data in real-time, turning massive document corpuses into actionable insights.

This means tackling the deep technical hurdles that come with hyper-growth: optimizing UI render cycles for data-heavy workflows, managing complex asynchronous states and side effects, and building extensible design systems that remain performant as we scale. Working across a modern stack of TypeScript, React, and Node.js, you will be the bridge between sophisticated backend search infrastructure and a seamless, high-performance user experience.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers to spec, design, and build features and systems.

• Contribute to front-end architecture discussions, improve UI performance, ensuring scalability, and maintainability.

• Create polished, accessible, and mobile-friendly user interfaces using modern front-end technologies and frameworks.

• Partner with quality engineers to define, build and maintain testing strategy.

• Mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team.

• Help interview and recruit talented engineers to Ironclad.

• Work on a modern stack built upon: ReactJS, TypeScript, Node.js, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.

What we look for:

• At least 4+ years of software experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex web applications (a formal degree is not required, we are prioritizing industry experience).

• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks like ReactJS. Passion for creating performant, accessible, intuitive, and mobile-friendly interfaces.

• Passion for software engineering to build and ship high-quality products.

• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.

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

Base Salary Range: $180,000 - $200,000

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

US Full-Time Employee Benefits at Ironclad:

• 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

• And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

**UK Employee-specific benefits are included on our UK job postings

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.