Staff Software Engineer

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About NetDocuments

At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.

Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.

Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.

That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:

• Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
• Five-time Top Workplace USA winner
• Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace
• Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits

If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.

You will:

Deep Technical Execution

• Serve as the primary hands-on builder for the most complex platform and tooling problems the DevX team takes on.
• Drive complex, high-impact projects end-to-end with minimal oversight.
• Balance architectural ideals against delivery timelines and team maturity, making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Architecture & Technical Influence
• Shape and constructively challenge technical direction across the team, offering credible alternatives grounded in hands-on experience.
• Partner with the Principal Software Engineer on architecture and build-vs-buy recommendations, bringing an independent technical perspective.
• Reinforce shared technical standards and patterns established for tooling adopted company-wide.

Cross-Team Technical Credibility & Hiring

• Build direct technical trust and relationships with other engineering teams, independent of the Principal's relationship.
• Travel occasionally to the US (approximately 1–2 weeks per year) to deepen technical collaboration with US engineering leadership.
• Participate in interviews and technical evaluation for Senior engineering candidates.
• Mentorship & Team Standards
• Mentor and raise the technical bar for the team, day-to-day.
• Lead by example in design and code reviews, reinforcing best practices in tooling and platform engineering.
• Communicate technical decisions and standards through design docs, Architecture Decision Reviews, and reviews that build buy-in across the team.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, currently operating at the Staff level.
• Deep hands-on experience building internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or platform engineering at scale.
• Strong fluency across C#, .NET, Python, AWS, and Java.
• Experience shaping technical direction and influencing other engineers without formal management authority.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team.
• Experience participating in technical hiring and interviews.
• Strong technical judgment, balancing architectural ideals against delivery timelines and team maturity.
• Strong communication skills, with experience building trust and credibility with distributed engineering teams.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Prior experience as a Staff-level engineer on a Platform or Developer Experience team.
• Experience acting as a technical bridge between distributed, cross-country engineering teams.
• Experience in legal technology, professional-services SaaS, or other regulated enterprise software environments.
• Public examples of technical leadership: conference speaking, technical writing, open-source contributions, or patterns adopted by other teams.

Equal Opportunity 

NetDocuments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, (including pregnancy), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military and veteran status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. NetDocuments believes diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success, and we are committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.