Technical Engineering Manager

We are looking for a leader who stays close to the code. You should expect a split of roughly 60-70% Leadership/Strategy and 30-40% Technical Contribution (design reviews, prototyping, and hands-on coding). You are an AI-forward thinker who doesn't just manage AI projects but uses AI daily to accelerate your own and your team's output.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and grow a high-performing team of engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, high agency, and pragmatic delivery.
• Agentic Product Delivery: Lead the execution of our Intake, Review, and Archive agents. These agents are responsible for the automated extraction of contract-relevant metadata, eliminating manual data entry and ensuring data integrity for Ironclad customers.
• Technical Contribution: Actively participate in the codebase. You will help spec, design, and build front-end agentic interfaces and the orchestration layers that interface with LLMs.
• System Ownership: Beyond AI, you will own and improve the existing core systems that power these workflows, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• AI-Forward Operations: Lead by example in adopting AI tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, LLM-based automation) to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
• Strategic Roadmap: Partner with Product and Design to define the "Why." You will manage cross-team dependencies and ensure the team is building the right solutions for complex legal use cases.
• Operational Excellence: Work with Quality Engineering to define testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs, ensuring our agents are production-grade.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production-grade web applications.
• Leadership: 2+ years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership (TLM), with a proven ability to mentor and grow engineers.
• AI/LLM Fluency: Hands-on experience building applications that interface with LLMs. You understand the nuances of prompt engineering, agentic loops, and handling LLM latency/reliability.
• Technical Stack: Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
• High Agency: You thrive in the "zero-to-one" phase of a project. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and can pivot quickly when technical constraints change.
• Product Mindset: You care deeply about the user experience. You aren't just building a "cool" AI feature; you are solving the "tedious work" of legal professionals.

Role Overview

We believe the best leaders in AI are those who stay hands-on.

• The Build: You will shape the technical roadmap, participate in architecture decisions, and contribute code to unblock the team or prototype new agentic behaviors.
• The Lead: You will manage performance, mentor engineers on their career growth, and represent your team’s vision to the broader Product Engineering organization.

Base Salary Range: $220,000 - $235,000

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.

Benefits

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.