Principal Software Engineer
NetDocuments4 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction across the Intelligent DMS organization and multiple engineering teams.
- Design and build cloud-native applications, microservices, integrations, and customer-facing experiences at enterprise scale.
- Architect web, mobile, backend, desktop, Microsoft 365, and AI-powered platform experiences.
- Define shared technical patterns, data models, permission models, migration strategies, and integration approaches.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives from product ideation through architecture, implementation, and production.
- Drive modernization of mature applications while maintaining critical customer workflows and supporting migrations.
- Establish performance, reliability, security, testing, quality, and engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers across experience levels, including Senior and Staff Engineers, and lead design and code reviews.
- Document architectural decisions and serve as a technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, Platform, and AI teams and support recruiting and interviewing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated Staff-level-or-above experience.
- Proven ability to set architecture and technical direction across multiple products, systems, or engineering teams.
- Experience leading complex cross-team initiatives without formal authority and aligning engineering stakeholders.
- Deep expertise in system design, distributed systems, cloud applications, microservices, and enterprise-scale integrations.
- Strong full-stack engineering experience across frontend and backend systems, including C#, .NET, React, and TypeScript.
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems using AWS, Azure, or comparable cloud technologies.
- Ability to translate ambiguous product requirements into technical architecture and implementation plans.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and providing technical guidance across teams.
- Strong technical writing skills, including architecture documents, design proposals, and technical decision records.
- Preferred experience shipping AI-native product experiences and operating multi-tenant enterprise platforms with strict security, compliance, or data residency requirements.
- Preferred experience with Microsoft 365 extensibility, Office add-ins, Microsoft Graph, co-authoring technologies, legacy modernization, customer migrations, legal technology, regulated enterprise software, or public technical leadership examples.
Benefits
- 90% of healthcare premiums covered by the company.
- HSA company contribution.
- 401(k) match at 4% with immediate vesting.
- Flexible PTO, typically 3 to 4 weeks per year, and 10 paid holidays.
- Monthly contributions for life activities and wellness.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning with dedicated monthly learning time.
- Mentorship and access to company leaders, advancement opportunities, and an inclusive workplace.
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About NetDocuments
NetDocuments provides a cloud-based document and email management platform used by law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector teams. Delivered as SaaS, it covers search, collaboration, governance, and compliance, and integrates with Microsoft 365 and DocuSign. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, the company is owned by Clearlake Capital and reports adoption by more than 7,000 legal organizations worldwide.