Senior Engineering Manager, Frontend

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 Senior Engineering Manager for our team, you will directly manage multiple frontend product engineering pods (tentatively 8-10 engineers). As a people manager, you will hire, mentor, provide feedback, motivate, grow, and in general enable success in each engineer. As the engineering leader of the pods, you will conduct technical and product deep dives, strategic planning, set and communicate visions, and ultimately tie your success to the outcome of the Pod deliverables.

 

We expect and encourage seasoned engineering managers to apply and to bring their own unique skill set, experiences, and perspectives to the table.

 

This position is a people manager role reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering.

 

Responsibility

• Build high-quality, user-focused eCommerce experiences with React/Node

• Lead a team of engineers at various stages of their career, actively investing in their growth and development

• Set team strategy and be accountable for team plans and deliverables

• Juggle between multiple priority projects and tasks and be creative to find solutions that are both high quality and cost effective

• Set high bar for engineering process and architecture

• Deliver products that delight customers while managing the health of the code base through continuous refactoring and management of technical debt

• Be an expert at agile continuous delivery, DevOps and TDD/BDD and will champion the culture, processes, and tools required to maintain a frictionless high quality development environment

• Provide coaching and leadership in software best practices, automated test strategies, and work toward flattening the cost of change curve for our software products and services

• Build high performing, secure applications and building security into the DNA of products

• Obsess over great user experiences and will be a partner to product management, engineering, sales, operations, and other parts of the business

• Cultivate an open, collaborative, and fun work environment for yourself and your team

• Work closely with product, design, security, customer success and other teams to provide technical expertise throughout all phases of product development

• Care deeply about writing high performance, reusable code for components that will be used across our product

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

• BS degree in CS or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of professional experience working with 5+ managing mid sized engineering team(s)
• Product development experience building large scale web applications
• Experience and knowledge of frontend layerings (web server, browser, CDN, CICD)

Preferred

• Expert coding and design skills in React, Node using TypeScript
• Proficiency in building REST, GraphQL APIs
• Strong understanding of design
• Experience leading distributed teams
• Experience and knowledge with accessibility, internationalization
• Familiarity with SaaS eCommerce and multichannel web marketing

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:

 

California: $177,900.00 - $28