Staff Software Engineer

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⛷️ Utah – Remote

⛷️ Utah – Remote

💵 $170k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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NetDocuments

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

🤝 B2B

⚖️ Legal

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Legal • SaaS

NetDocuments is a leading cloud-based document management platform designed specifically for legal professionals. The platform enhances productivity by providing tools for document organization, collaboration, and automation, while ensuring high levels of security and compliance. With features like AI-driven apps, real-time messaging, and seamless integrations with applications like Microsoft 365 and DocuSign, NetDocuments empowers law firms and corporate legal teams to streamline their operations and effectively manage their documents.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical direction of a backend engineering team • Serve as a hands-on technical leader and define engineering standards • Lead architectural discussions and make technical decisions across services and distributed systems • Establish patterns for scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable systems • Guide technology stack evolution as products mature and scale • Drive improvements in performance, reliability, cost efficiency, developer experience, and engineering quality • Architect and build production-grade, cloud-native backend services and APIs • Design event-driven, service-oriented systems and data pipelines resilient to load, retries, and partial failure • Build secure systems for processing, organizing, and surfacing large volumes of content, including search, retrieval, and AI capabilities • Integrate AI-powered services and emerging technologies • Design for security, permissions, governance, compliance, and data protection • Instrument services with logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and telemetry • Improve throughput, latency, scalability, and cost • Design for idempotency, ordering, deduplication, rate limiting, and safe reprocessing • Own complex technical initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing operation • Evaluate architectural tradeoffs across performance, cost, security, scalability, and maintainability • Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, system designs, and technical decisions • Partner with Product, Design, Platform Services, engineering leadership, and other engineering teams • Mentor engineers and raise technical capabilities and engineering practices • Lead knowledge sharing through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and hands-on guidance • Research and validate emerging technologies through proofs of concept • Identify opportunities to improve customer experience and engineering velocity • Leverage modern development and AI tooling to increase engineering effectiveness

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production grade systems at scale • 3+ years providing technical leadership and influencing engineering direction and practices • Deep experience designing and operating distributed, cloud native backend systems, ideally on AWS (services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and S3) • Strong experience with event driven and service oriented architectures, including asynchronous processing, queueing, idempotency, and handling failure and retries • Proven ability to build systems that are performant, reliable, and cost effective at high volume • Strong backend development experience in a modern backend language; C#/.NET is the preferred stack, with Python, Java, or Go also valued • Experience implementing observability in production: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and telemetry • Working familiarity with modern AI and its application in production software • Experience with automated testing, CI/CD practices, and operating production services • Experience building search, retrieval, or other data intensive systems at scale is a differentiator • Familiarity with semantic or vector search, embeddings, and retrieval augmented generation is a differentiator • Experience operating high throughput data or processing pipelines is a differentiator • Experience building document management, content services, or enterprise systems is a differentiator • Experience integrating AI or agent facing services into production applications is a differentiator • Experience building B2B SaaS in legal or other regulated, security sensitive environments is a differentiator • Contributions to open source, technical writing, or sharing technical expertise are a differentiator

🏖️ Benefits

• 90% healthcare premiums company covered • HSA company contribution • 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting • Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year) • 10 paid holidays • Monthly contributions for life activities & wellness • Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore • Connection, access, and mentorship from exceptional leaders • Growing company with opportunities for advancement • Authenticity and accountability from leadership