Sr. Software Engineer
Role summary
Docusign is seeking a Sr. Front End Software Engineer with a focus on customer-facing experiences. This individual contributor role involves owning the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of product features. The engineer will primarily use React/TypeScript for customer-facing elements and potentially NodeJS/C# for backend API UI code. Responsibilities include building microservices and micro-frontends, ensuring seamless user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers. The role requires 8+ years of full-stack development experience with modern web technologies and a proven track record of building world-class product experiences.
## 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
The Sr. Front End Software Engineer (FrontEnd Focus) will own all aspects of the software development lifecycle including design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of product features in Docusign software products. You will primarily develop customer facing experiences using React/Typescript, as well as backend API UI-facing code either in NodeJS/C#. 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 also help the team succeed by thinking about ways to improve processes, suggesting ways to make the team more effective, and mentoring and modeling engineering best practices.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Software Engineering.
Responsibility
- Design, develop, and maintain well crafted, responsive and modular UI, using React and Typescript
- Build and maintain microservices and micro-frontend architectures
- Ensure that UI and our entire stack enables responsive and seamless user experiences and functionality
- Work as part of a cross-functional team, proactively get alignment on designs, communicate roadblocks
- Guide and mentor other engineers through design and code reviews
- Work closely with the founders and product managers to understand the why behind each capability in the platform
- Help to drive alignment on the prioritization of engineering-driven priorities alongside product priorities
- Be a key decision-maker in selecting our forward-looking front-end architecture and technology stack
## 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
- B.S. in Computer Science or similar field of study
- 8+ years of professional experience in fullstack software development utilizing frontend and backend technologies, like React, Typescript, or similar OOP
- Experience with modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, WebSockets, etc.)
- Experience with front-stack engineering using TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks (React a plus)
- A proven track-record of building world-class end-user-facing product experiences
- Experience working with designers on design systems as well as authoring and maintaining shared components
- Experience working with front-end analytics and experimentation frameworks
- Experience in Integrating with REST APIs
Preferred
- Well-formed opinions based on years of experience ensuring quality through predictable, scalable, and reliable end-to-end testing
- Experience with Microsoft technology stack (Typescript)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL solutions (e.g., Cosmos DB)
- Experience with Enterprise SaaS software products
## Wage Transparency
Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:
California: $157,500.00 - $254,350.00 base salary
This role is also eligible for the following:
- 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).
Global benefits
provide options for the following:
- 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
## 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.
### Our global benefits
#### Paid time off
Take time to unwind with earned days off, plus paid company holidays based on your region.
#### Paid parental leave
Take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement.
#### Full health benefits
Options for 100% employer-paid health plans from day one of employment.
#### Retirement plans
Select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions.
#### Learning & development
Grow your career with coaching, online courses and education reimbursements.
#### Compassionate care leave
Paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events.
Sample DocuSign interview questions
- 1
Design a system for managing a distributed time series database.
system designmedium - 2
What are the key considerations when designing a big data processing pipeline?
system designmedium - 3
Find the majority element in an array. Given an array of size n, find the majority element. The majority element is the element that appears more than ⌊n / 2⌋ times. You may assume that the majority element always exists in the array. Input: nums = [3, 2, 3] Output: 3 Explanation: The number 3 appears 2 times, which is strictly greater than n/2 (1.5).
technicalmedium - 4
Top K Frequent Elements Find the top K frequent elements in an array. Input: nums = [4,4,4,4,5,5,6], k = 1 Output: [4] Explanation: The number 4 appears four times, easily making it the single most frequent element in the data structure.
technicalmedium - 5
Encode and Decode Strings Encode a list of strings into a single string and decode it back. Input: strs = ["","hello",""] Output: ["","hello",""] Explanation: Prepends chunk lengths and a delimiter (e.g., "0#5#hello0#") to safely encode and perfectly restore empty strings.
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