Technical Lead Manager

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: 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.
• Product Delivery: 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.
• Strategic Roadmap: Partner with Product and Design to ensure that proposed solutions fully satisfy our customers’ needs and align to Ironclad’s high-level strategic objectives.
• Technical Contribution: Actively participate in the codebase, and use sound technical judgment and collaborative critique to refine specs and designs.
• System Ownership: Own and improve the existing core systems that power your team’s product surfaces, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and maintainable.
• AI-Forward Operations: Lead by example in adopting AI tooling (such as Cursor or Claude Code) to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
• Operational Excellence: 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.
• Team Representation: Manage cross-team dependencies to mitigate delivery delays. Build awareness of your team’s work for other teams and departments.
• Hiring and Performance: 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

• 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, with a proven ability to grow engineers.
• Technical Stack: Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
• Passion: Desire to build and ship great product, keeping customer value in mind. A high bar for quality, upheld personally and with other engineers.
• AI Fluency: Familiarity with modern AI tools for code development (such as Claude Code) and experience incorporating AI into a customer-facing product experience.
• Soft Skills: Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, both spoken and written.
• Ironclad Culture: Alignment with Ironclad’s values: Drive, Intent, Integrity, and Empathy.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.

Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $245,000 - $270,000
• US Full-Time Employee Benefits: 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
• 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
• Opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

Pay

$245K - $270K

Schedule

This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.