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Lead Software Engineer

Docusign
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Jul 2025
💰 $251,325/yr($170,900/yr$251,325/yr)

About the role

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

Docusign is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our development team primarily in Seattle, Washington. We are looking for a lead software engineer to help build and enhance capabilities for the enterprise account administration space. You will be working in a focused scrum team obsessed with creating elegant, yet simple user-interaction for complex workflows that will delight our customers. This person is able to seamlessly integrate into agile teams and work closely with all facets of the organization to achieve high quality results.

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

Responsibility

  • Work with Product Management and other engineers to understand design requirements and provide estimates for development

  • Drive and participate in the design and architecture of our microservices

  • Write high quality code and services that are maintainable, scalable and testable

  • Work as part of a passionate, agile development team to deliver engaging experiences and robust back-end systems

  • Proactively drive the ownership of services built from inception to monitoring the health of the services deployed and fix any production issues adhering to the SLA

  • Research new features and technologies

  • Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed

  • Participate in live site reviews and help implement new features and processes to improve site reliability

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

  • 12+ years of hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++ or Java

  • 7+ years of experience with storage solutions SQL, NoSQL, Redis, MemCache, Cassandra, ElasticSearch

  • Experience with Front end technologies like React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, VueJS

  • Experience working in an agile development environment

  • Experience with git, continuous integration and deployment tools

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred

  • Experience with large scale distributed systems

  • Hands-on experience driving platform transformations within high-growth environments at scale

  • Experience with big data technologies

  • Demonstrated experience in architecting and building complex N tier systems using open source technologies

  • Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools

  • Passion for UI with a good sense of usability and design

  • Experience with consuming and building RESTful web-services, React, Typescript, GraphQL and Node.js

  • Experience with using telemetry to gain insights into usage patterns and feature success

  • Experience with cloud computing technologies, such as Azure

  • Ability to learn and curious about new technologies and tool sets

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

 

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

 

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $170,900.00 - $251,325.00 base salary

 

This role is also eligible for the following:

  • Bonus: Sales personn

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