What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer position at DocuSign?
Company Overview
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they agree. Our flagship product, eSignature, is the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from virtually anywhere, at any time. Today, more than a million customers and a billion users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives.
What you'll do
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be working in a dynamic and agile engineering team of 20 based in Israel at Givat Shmuel. You will be the technical referent and will actively assist in the architectural design and software development tasks for different products in the Digital Signatures arena mainly focus on Digital Signature Signing Engine for DocuSign TSP, High consumption central audit service, and QSCD HSM appliance.
These products are built and implemented within the Cloud Agreement Platform of DocuSign and are scaled to be used world-wide. The position may require to participate and/or present technical for both internal or customer-facing events.
This position is an Individual Contributor, reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering.
Responsibility
- Architect and design components
- Solve problems at scale and build fault tolerant systems
- Develop high-quality, ship-ready code that is covered by a full test suite
- Ensure design and architecture are extensible across multiple projects and conduct technical-design reviews
- Be responsible for sharing and adopting the best performance and availability practices for one or more functional area
- Design and develop user interfaces and core functionalities to allow internal and third-party developers to integrate applications with DocuSign more easily
- Work with Product Management, Designer, UX Research and other developers to understand and convert marketing requirements into design requirements and provide estimates for development
- Enhance quality by identifying new test cases and devise efficient, scalable testing processes
- Stay updated with the latest development trends and share your findings with the team
- Work as part of a cross-country development team to drive design, implementation, testing and release of products
- Collaborate with remote teams in a multicultural environment
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
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Informatics or equivalent
- 10 years in development experience as a Senior Software Engineer or equivalent position
- Experience with full stack development, preferably in .NET/C#
- Experience with client-side frameworks, preferably React or Angular (Backbone, Knockout, Spine, Ember, or similar modern JS frameworks accepted)
- Experience building or consuming RESTful APIs
- Directly involved in the design and operation of large scale cloud services
- Experience with the entire software development lifecycle, including version control (git), continuous integration, testing, and code release
- Phenomenal oral and written communication skills, fluent English is required
Preferred
- Experience in highly secured distributed systems
- Ability and desire to move across technology stacks fluently and easily
- Agile and Test-driven development methodologies
- Ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment, prioritize your work and manage your own time
- A passion to learn new software technologies and to share knowledge
- Experience shipping successful products
- Experience with Authentication and Authorization schemas (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect)
- Superb teammate who enjoys helping their colleagues perform better in their jobs
- Strong organizational, problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
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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