Senior Software Engineer
DocuSign
Senior Software Engineer
- Location
- IE-Dublin
- Category
- Engineering
- Position Type
- Regular
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 backend software engineer at Docusign on the Data Modelling Platform team, you will be responsible for building foundational tools and services for our next generation agreement platform. Your solutions will be used by other teams across the company to build and maintain their data models, which are critical for powering our agreement platform. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, from designing and implementing new features to optimizing existing services for performance and scalability. 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 TypeScript. 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 the Manager, Software Engineering.
Responsibility
- Develop and maintain Docusign's internal data modelling platform and tools
- Contribute to the open source foundation of the data modelling platform
- Assist and lead the engineering design process with management and stakeholders from product and program management
- Assist with site reliability work and on call on a as-needed basis
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
- 8+ years development experience
- Experience working with TypeScript or other modern programming languages
- Experience with designing and developing scalable cloud-based microservice components
- Experience building/consuming RESTful or gRPC web-services
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases
- 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
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.