Software Engineer
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Job description
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the DocuSign Agreement Platform team, you will be responsible for building foundational tools and services for our next-generation agreement platform. Your solutions will be used by multiple DocuSign product teams, partners and customers. You will work with multiple partner teams designing and architecting solutions to onboard them on our agreement platform. The Agreement Platform team builds schema-driven SaaS products to scale to a wide range of customers' needs, and maintains an open-source schema language and runtime.
The successful candidate will have a strong product engineering background and proficiency in .NET. You'll enjoy entrepreneurial environments where you can solve difficult problems using current technologies and tools. You'll collaborate well with other team members when brainstorming, designing, and implementing new solutions. You will help the team succeed by thinking about ways to improve processes, suggest ways to make the team more effective, and model engineering best practices. As a member of the Platform engineering group, you will work closely with product managers, developers, and platform engineers to ensure high quality and timely product releases. You are a hands-on technical person who will be responsible for issues related to product features, performance, speed, scale, security and accessibility.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to Sr. Manager, Engineering.
Responsibility
- Write accessible code that is easy to maintain and test
- Participate in the design and architecture of our microservices
- Work with Project Management and other developers to elicit design requirements
- Work as part of a passionate, agile development team to deliver engaging user experiences
- Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed
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.
Requirements
- 8+ years development experience
- Experience working with C# or other modern programming languages
- Experience with designing and developing scalable cloud-based microservice components
- Experience building/consuming RESTful or gRPC web-services
- Experience delivering a SaaS product
Preferred
- Open minded, forward thinking, and passionate about great software
- Experience with the entire software development lifecycle, including version control, build process, testing, and code release
- A history of open-source contribution
- Experience with data modeling or schema languages, such as XML Schema or JSON Schema
- Agile and Test-driven development methodologies
- Experience of Performance Analysis and Code Optimization
- Strong communication skills, particularly in an asynchronous environment
Benefits & conditions
Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $158,300.00 - $232,575.00 base salary
This role is also eligible for the following:
- Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre-established sales goals. Non-Sales roles are eligible for a company bonus plan, which is calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
- Stock: This role is eligible to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Global benefits provide options for the following:
- Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region
- Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement
- Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment
- Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions
- Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements
- Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events
Work Authorization Notice: Please note that we do not provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.
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
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States Not Eligible for Employment
This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.