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Ironclad

Technical Lead Manager

Ironclad

Technical Lead Manager at Ironclad overseeing a high-performing team of engineers. Leading technical excellence and product delivery for AI contracting solutions.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeSan Francisco • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $245,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgresReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, high agency, and pragmatic delivery. Challenge the status quo when there are opportunities to elevate Ironclad’s product and culture.
  • Lead the execution of agentic solutions to major contracting challenges faced by our customers’ procurement teams, spearhead scalability improvements to meet increasing demands of enterprise-scale performance, and more.
  • Partner with Product and Design to ensure that proposed solutions fully satisfy our customers’ needs and align to Ironclad’s high-level strategic objectives.
  • Actively participate in the codebase, and use sound technical judgment and collaborative critique to refine specs and designs.
  • Own and improve the existing core systems that power your team’s product surfaces, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
  • Lead by example in adopting AI tooling (such as Cursor or Claude Code) to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
  • Work with Quality Engineers, Security Engineers, and SREs to define testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs, validate end-to-end experiences, guard against vulnerabilities and unsafe coding practices, and ensure adequate performance at high scale.
  • Manage cross-team dependencies to mitigate delivery delays. Build awareness of your team’s work for other teams and departments.
  • Interview and recruit more talented engineers to join Ironclad. Provide 1:1 support for your team’s engineers and formal feedback for talent management when needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production-grade web applications.
  • 2+ years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership, with a proven ability to grow engineers.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
  • Desire to build and ship great product, keeping customer value in mind. A high bar for quality, upheld personally and with other engineers.
  • Familiarity with modern AI tools for code development (such as Claude Code) and experience incorporating AI into a customer-facing product experience.
  • Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, both spoken and written.
  • Alignment with Ironclad’s values: Drive, Intent, Integrity, and Empathy.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringengineering managementTypeScriptReactNode.jsDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLGoogle Cloud PlatformAI tools
Soft Skills
team managementtechnical leadershipcross-team communicationcollaborationcustomer focusquality assurancefeedback provisioncultural fosteringproblem-solvingagility