Lead Software Engineer

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

As a Lead Software Engineer on the CLM Party Management team, you are responsible for designing, building and maintaining key features that are integral to our customers and business. You are a hands-on technical expert who will guide and contribute to our development and operations teams to improve the creation of infrastructure solutions that scale with our rapid growth. As a successful lead engineer, you have a flexible attitude combined with the ability to learn and share. You are responsible not only for writing quality, scalable code but also for guiding the team to make the right decisions. You enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment, care about the team’s decisions, and are focused on quality-driven development. We are seeking an engineer who is experienced in building distributed cloud applications. You will have the opportunity to work on a complex ecosystem in the cloud with a focus on scale and availability. You will be responsible for developing software solutions using object oriented methodologies, design patterns, and building scalable, highly available systems. You will also have experience with public cloud and be curious and able to learn new technologies and toolsets. You have a strong background in UX/front-end development, particularly React and Javascript framework.

 

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Manager, Engineering.

 

Responsibility

• Write high quality code in C# .Net and other object-oriented languages that is easy to maintain and test

• Participate in an agile environment using Scrum software development practices, automated unit testing, continuous integration, code reviews, version control systems and automated build processes

• Research new features and technologies

• Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments

• Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed

• Think about how to solve problems in scale and build fault tolerant systems

• Articulate clear Software Engineering strategies, plans, goals and objectives across multiple Engineering domains, projects and teams, including cross-functional partners

• Lead troubleshooting and remediation quickly during high severity incidents

• Be responsible for sharing and adoption of best practices for performance and availability for one or more functional area

• Contribute to and drive a culture of building scalable and highly available systems

• Identify, propose, and implement process improvements to continuously increase the teams productivity and efficiency

• Stay ahead of the latest development standard methodologies and share your findings with the team

• Work as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing and release of products

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

 

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years industry experience in Software Engineering
• Experience with C#, Java, C++, or Go
• Experience developing software solutions using object-oriented methodologies and design patterns
• Experience with SQL

Preferred

• Knowledge and experience in high scale, highly available (99.99+) systems
• 4+ years professional experience building complex, scalable applications
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Curiosity and ability to learn new technologies and