Principal 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

Our business is built on finding great people and getting out of their way while they build and improve our award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. We are looking for a hands-on Principal Software Engineer to join the Docusign Engineering organization in India; you will help scale and build the next generation of Docusign’s agreement platform and services/products. As a Principal Software engineer, you will spearhead the architecture and development of a highly scalable, reliable and available (“5 nines”) piece of our core offering. You will cover API/backend, from sending a document to signing to integrating with various 3rd party systems, to working on data platforms at scale, contract lifecycle workflow and intelligence; all in a dynamic environment with a 24x7x52 critical service and an exceptional team.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP, Product and Technology.

Responsibility

• Architect, design, implement, deploy and maintain Docusign’s current and next-generation core services and API’s
• Deliver on the most complex and foundational layers of design and code as an individual contributor
• Guide and mentor other engineers through all facets of engineering and product building
• Lead collaboration and partnership with product management, QA, design, business and other multi-functional teams, proactively and as an inspiring leader
• Interact with customers/sales/business teams to identify crucial business opportunities and take those insights into product building with a positive impact
• Drive innovation across engineering and product teams that grow Docusign’s customer base and usage substantially
• Lead and drive the solutions for scale, availability (“5 nines”), and 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

• BS degree in Computer Science or relevant field of study
• 15+ years of product development experience, including building large-scale distributed systems
• Proven ability to lead across multiple teams in driving architecture, design and coding direction, while solving abstract problems
• Experience with full stack and/or backend development, preferably in one or more of OO programming languages, like C#, Java, C++
  
  

Preferred

• Prior SaaS or Cloud experience
• Prior experience leading across global distributed teams, from India
• Hands-on, professional experience with building RESTful web-services
• Experience with CSS, AJAX, JSON, HTML, and/or MVC
• Experience with Microsoft technology stack (.NET, C#, SQL Server, etc.)
  
  

Life at Docusign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

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