Senior Manger, Software Engineering

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 Engineering Manager on the Docusign platform team, you will be responsible for building the foundation Back End system that powers our Intelligent Agreement Management. The successful candidate will have a strong product engineering background and proficiency in building large scalable distributed systems. You’ll enjoy entrepreneurial environments where you can solve difficult problems using current technologies and tools while collaborating well with other team members. You will help the team succeed by thinking about ways to improve processes, suggesting ways to make the team more effective, and modeling engineering best practices. Finally, 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 a people manager role reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering. Responsibility Be the Engineering leader responsible for executing on our product roadmap using agile practices and will champion the culture, processes, and tools required to maintain a frictionless high quality development environment Have passion for continuous improvement and building a highly reliable system Be responsible for delivering products while managing the health of the code base through continuous refactoring and management of technical debt Provide coaching and leadership in software best practices, automated test strategies, and work toward flattening the cost of change curve for our software products and services Have a demonstrated track record of building high performing, secure applications and building security into the DNA of products Lead a team of engineers at various stages of their career, actively investing in their growth and development Cultivate an open, collaborative, and fun work environment for yourself and your team Work closely with product, design, security, customer success and other teams to provide technical expertise throughout all phases of product development Obsess over great user experience and will be a partner to product management and engineering, operation, and other parts of the business 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 10+ years of combined software development amp; management experience building large scale distributed systems 7+ years of hands-on software development experience Experience in managing large scale production systems and driving service reliability Strong experience with SQL and NoSql databases Preferred Demonstrated track record leading high performing teams Skilled in language, framework and toolset agnostic Experience leading Back End teams for distributed systems Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it Knowledge and experience in high scale, highly available (99.99+) systemsn Experience with Microsoft technology stack (.NET, C#, SQL Server, etc.) SaaS or Cloud experience Experience building on Azure platform 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 [email protected]. 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