Manager, 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).

We are building a cutting‑edge ecosystem for Docusign that will empower developers to seamlessly integrate and extend Docusign’s features and applications by implementing custom APIs. As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will be responsible for leading initiatives and scaling the Extend platform foundations, ensuring that it is robust, secure, and easy to use for builders looking to plug into Docusign’s growing IAM ecosystem.

You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams across the organization, drive platform architecture and feature development, and manage incident response processes that require being on high‑stakes customer workflows. This position is a people manager role reporting to a Senior Manager, Engineering.

• Lead a team to architect and build high‑quality, ship‑ready code with unit tests, logging, monitoring, and storage systems to handle the diverse needs of the platform ecosystem.
• Work with product and project teams to understand and translate requirements into platform software requirements that are well‑defined, measurable, and attainable.
• Own and deliver accurate effort estimations for each release cycle.
• Foster career development for your team.
• Build learning organizations that keep up with the state of the art and serve as an example and mentor to your team.
• Deliver products that delight customers while managing the health of the code base through continuous refactoring and management of technical debt.
• Be an expert at agile continuous delivery, Dev Ops, and TDD/BDD and champion the culture, processes, and tools required to maintain a frictionless high‑quality development environment.
• Dive deep into technology, stay at the forefront of the latest tools, technologies, and strategies, and help evaluate, prototype, and introduce them to our team.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and high performance within the engineering team.
• Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand needs and iterate quickly.
• Prioritize great user experiences and be a partner to product management, engineering, sales, operations, and other parts of the business.

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 a 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.

• 5+ years of software development and management experience, with a focus on cloud platforms and large‑scale systems.
• 5+ years of hands‑on software development or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Azure services, queueing systems, SQL databases (e.g., Azure SQL Database, SQL Server), and No
  
  SQL solutions (e.g., Cosmos
  
  DB).
• Experience with NodeJS, C#, Java, C++, or Go.
• Experience building AI Agents and prompt engineering.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., LLMs for coding assistance, code generation) to accelerate software delivery.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, Graph
  
  QL APIs, and microservices architecture and APIs at scale.
• Experience developing software solutions using object‑oriented…