Software Engineer

Docusign • Seattle, WA

11h • Hybrid

About The Position

The successful candidate will have a strong product engineering background and proficiency in Javascript, React, NodeJS. You enjoy fast-paced entrepreneurial environments where you can solve difficult problems using current technologies and tools. You 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 mentor and model engineering best practices. As a member of the core eSign engineering group, you will work closely with product managers, developers, and devops engineers to ensure high quality and timely product releases. You are a hands-on technical resource 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 Sr. Manager, Engineering.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of professional software development experience building web applications in a Cloud/SaaS or Enterprise environment
• 2+ years of experience developing user interfaces with React and TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale, production web applications used by real customers
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs and working with Node.js/Express or similar server-side frameworks
• Experience writing automated tests (e.g., Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright) and using CI pipelines to ship code safely

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing accessible web applications for a global audience (WCAG, semantic HTML, keyboard and screen reader support)
• Commitment to code quality, reliability, and maintainability in a shared platform codebase
• Experience working in micro-frontend architectures, or interest in learning how to build for a shared shell
• Experience with modern CI/CD tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and release strategies (feature flags, staged rollouts)
• Experience instrumenting applications for observability (logging, metrics, dashboards) and using data to debug or improve performance
• Familiarity with Agile practices and test-driven development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong attention to detail and ability to work in a highly collaborative, cross-team environment
• Natural curiosity and a growth mindset — comfortable learning from others and sharing knowledge to help the broader the ecosystem

Responsibilities

• Deliver product features and technology improvements as part of a passionate agile development team working on a high impact roadmap
• Innovate, design and build applications that will scale and support our platform serving more than 1 billion unique Docusigners
• Write high quality code in JavaScript, Typescript, and React
• Write and maintain unit and functional tests for every feature
• Participate in an Agile environment using Scrum software development practices, automated unit testing, continuous integration, code reviews, version control systems, automated build processes
• Raise issues proactively that may impact delivery commitments
• Fix production issues and maintain the code as needed
• Address system issues as they relate to performance, scalability and reliability
• Provide direction and supervision across multiple teams to influence architectural decisions and technology selection
• Work cooperatively with product management and design to create features that satisfy user needs with simplicity, consistency and robustness
• Identify, propose, and implement process improvements to continuously increase the team's productivity and efficiency
• Maintain and evolve the software architecture for current and future needs
• Stay current with the latest development best practices and share your findings with the team

Benefits

• 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).
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level