Software Engineer Intern

Engineering @ Ironclad

As an Engineering Intern at Ironclad, you’ll work across the team to identify business problems and design, build, and verify solutions. You’ll be building a platform that lets legal teams scale themselves and their businesses 100x more effectively, bringing a two‑thousand‑year‑old profession into the digital age.

You’ll work on a modern stack that includes technologies like TypeScript, React, Node.js, Java, and Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (experience with these specific technologies is a plus, but not required). We work in a highly collaborative environment and strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture where interns ship real product and get meaningful mentorship, not busy work.

About the role

We’re looking for Software Engineer Interns who are excited to learn, ship real features, and have an end‑to‑end impact on our product. You’ll join a Product Engineering Team (for example, AI, core product, workflow, or platform) and contribute to projects that touch real customers at companies around the world.

You’ll pair closely with full‑time engineers, product managers, designers, and quality engineers to understand user problems, prototype solutions, and iterate quickly based on feedback.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and ship product features as part of a cross‑functional product team (engineering, product, design, QE).
• Collaborate with mentors and teammates to break down ambiguous problems into clear, scoped projects you can execute on during the internship.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code in one or more of our core languages (e.g., TypeScript, Java, Python), and participate in code reviews where you both give and receive feedback.
• Work across the stack (frontend, backend, or services) depending on team needs and your interests, with guidance from your mentor and manager.
• Instrument and monitor your work in production, using metrics and logs to understand impact and reliability, and help debug issues when they arise.
• Partner with product and design to understand user needs, test hypotheses, and iterate quickly on solutions that create real value for legal, sales, and operations teams.
• Contribute to team culture, documentation, and best practices so future interns and engineers can build on what you’ve shipped.

Who you are

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, with an expected graduation date after the internship term.
• Have foundational knowledge in computer science and software engineering, including data structures, algorithms, and basic systems or web concepts (from coursework, projects, or prior experience).
• Comfortable programming in at least one modern language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, or Go) and interested in learning our stack on the job.
• Demonstrated experience through projects, internships, hackathons, or open‑source contributions where you shipped something real and iterated based on feedback.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a bias toward action — you break down ambiguous problems, ask thoughtful questions, and move ideas forward collaboratively.
• Clear, kind communicator who enjoys working in cross‑functional teams and can explain technical concepts to non‑technical partners when needed.
• Excited to learn about contracts, legal workflows, and AI‑powered productivity tools, even if you don’t have prior domain experience.
• Embody Ironclad’s values of drive, intent, integrity, and empathy in how you work and collaborate.

Internship details

• Format: Full‑time, 40 hours/week.
• Duration: ~12 weeks (summer), with flexibility based on academic calendar.
• Location: San Francisco OR New York depending on team needs and candidate location.
• Mentorship: You’ll be paired with an engineer mentor and have regular 1:1s with your manager, as well as access to intern programming, tech talks, and networking with leaders across EPD (Engineering, Product, Design).