Lead 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 Docusign is looking for an amazing Lead Software Engineer to join our Search platform team. This position will be part of a team working on an architectural shift that will allow us to scale to meet the next 10x of growth. We need back end engineers to build next generation software and services that make up the agreement cloud and be able to work with Product Managers to build and ship customer scenarios that are used by 100s of enterprises. This position will demand critical thinking skills, ability to quickly understand existing systems and the ability to work in agile, fast paced environments. The ability to take smart and educated risks is essential to the success of this position. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AI Platform. Responsibility Solve problems in scale and build fault tolerant systems Develop testable, high-quality, and ship-ready code with ample test coverage Work with Product Management and other developers to understand and translate engineering requirements into design requirements and provide estimates Work as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing and development and release of products 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 related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience 5+ years of development experience in Search, information retrieval, or recommendation systems Experience building / consuming RESTful and gRPC based web-services Experience working with C#, .Net Core, SQL Database and Designing Large scale distributed systems Experience with cloud deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes or Docker containers Experience developing software solutions using object-oriented methodologies and design patterns Preferred Experience with Lucene or Elastic Search technologies Experience with microservice architecture Experience shipping highly available, scalable service on Azure Experience with the entire software development lifecycle, including version control (git) build process, testing, and code release Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving environment Agile and Test-driven development methodologies Ability and desire to move across technology stacks Passion for working on a highly available site Passion to learn new software technologies Open minded, forward thinking, and passionate about great software 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 If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at for assistance. Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice #LI-Hybrid #LI-VP3Basic 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience 5+ years of development experience in Search, information retrieval, or recommendation systems Experience building / consuming RESTful and gRPC based web-services Experience working with C#, .Net Core, SQL Database and Designing Large scale distributed systems Experience with cloud deployment technologies, such as Kubernetes or Docker containers Experience developing software solutions using object-oriented methodologies and design patterns Preferred Experience with Lucene or Elastic Search technologies Experience with microservice architecture Experience shipping highly available, scalable service on Azure Experience with the entire software development lifecycle, including version control (git) build process, testing, and code release Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving environment Agile and Test-driven development methodologies Ability and desire to move across technology stacks Passion for working on a highly available site Passion to learn new software technologies Open minded, forward thinking, and passionate about great softwareDocusign is looking for an amazing Lead Software Engineer to join our Search platform team. This position will be part of a team working on an architectural shift that will allow us to scale to meet the next 10x of growth. We need back end engineers to build next generation software and services that make up the agreement cloud and be able to work with Product Managers to build and ship customer scenarios that are used by 100s of enterprises. This position will demand critical thinking skills, ability to quickly understand existing systems and the ability to work in agile, fast paced environments. The ability to take smart and educated risks is essential to the success of this position. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering - AI Platform. Responsibility Solve problems in scale and build fault tolerant systems Develop testable, high-quality, and ship-ready code with ample test coverage Work with Product Management and other developers to understand and translate engineering requirements into design requirements and provide estimates Work as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing and development and release of products