DocuSign

Software Engineer

DocuSign$140K — $206K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of development experience or equivalent
  • Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Redux, or other modern programming languages
  • Strong understanding of identity verification (IDV) systems and compliance standards
  • Experience with building secure backend services and APIs for critical workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Solve problems at scale for identity verification processes
  • Develop high-quality, shipping-ready code with full test coverage
  • Design user interfaces and core functionality for non-coders
  • Implement secure backend services and APIs for IDV flows
  • Integrate with third-party IDV providers and handle asynchronous workflows
  • Translate product requirements into design specifications and development estimates
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for product design and release
  • Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and audit standards for handling sensitive identity data.

Benefits

  • Earned Paid Time Off and paid company holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave of up to six months
  • Full health benefits from day one with minimal employee contribution
  • Retirement plans with employer contribution potential
  • Learning and Development options including coaching and educational reimbursements
  • Compassionate Care Leave for significant life events.
Full Job Description
What you'll do

Docusign is looking for Software Engineers to join our development team in San Francisco. This position will be part of a team working on Docusign's Unified Experiences. The team is focused on delivering reusable end-customer experiences to internal Docusign teams and external developer experiences, including related App Model configurations. A key area of focus for this team is building and integrating secure, scalable Identity Verification (IDV) experiences and APIs that power how customers verify identities as part of their agreement workflows.

This position requires strong critical thinking skills, the ability to quickly understand existing systems, and experience working in agile environments. The individual will primarily be building for developers, so an understanding of the developer ecosystem and empathy for developers are important. You will collaborate closely with product, security, and platform teams to design IDV flows, integrate with IDV providers, and ensure that identity data is handled securely and compliantly. If you have these qualities and a passion for building high-quality experiences that make it easier for customers to manage their agreement and identity verification processes, we'd love to talk to you.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering.

Responsibility
  • Think about how to solve problems at scale
  • Develop high-quality, ship-ready code covered by a full test suite
  • Design and develop component-based, scalable user interfaces and core functionality that enable customer administrators to build simple business processes without coding expertise
  • Design and implement secure, resilient backend services and APIs that power identity verification (IDV) flows, including orchestration of document verification, risk checks, and decisioning
  • Integrate with third-party IDV/document verification providers and internal identity services, handling webhooks, asynchronous workflows, error handling, and monitoring
  • Work with Product Management and other developers to understand and translate product requirements into design requirements and provide development estimates, with a focus on high-assurance IDV use cases and user journeys
  • Collaborate as part of a cross-site development team to drive design, implementation, testing, and release of products
  • Partner with security, privacy, and compliance teams to ensure IDV experiences meet data protection, encryption, access control, and auditability standards for handling sensitive identity data


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
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Informatics, or equivalent
  • 5+ years of development experience or equivalent
  • Experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Redux, or other modern programming languages

Preferred
  • Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, testing, and regional cloud deployments
  • Experience debugging high-priority production issues
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving environment, prioritize work, and manage time effectively
  • A passion for learning new software technologies
  • Experience designing and building secure, high-availability backend services and APIs for critical workflows, ideally involving identity, authentication, or fraud/risk systems
  • Experience with identity verification (IDV), KYC, or document verification flows, including integrating with third-party IDV providers and building rules/decisioning workflows
  • Experience handling sensitive PII and identity data in compliance with security and privacy best practices (encryption in transit/at rest, access controls, data retention, audit logging)
  • Experience building or integrating user-facing flows for verification, such as document upload, selfie capture, or guided step-up verification in web or mobile applications


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: $146,400.00 - $235,375.00 base salary

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $140,100.00 - $206,775.00 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

About DocuSign

DocuSign is a software company that provides electronic signature technology and digital transaction management services for facilitating electronic exchanges of contracts and signed documents. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. DocuSign's cloud-based platform allows users to sign, send, and manage documents anytime, anywhere, and from any device. The company's customers include individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises across a variety of industries, including real estate, financial services, healthcare, and government. DocuSign has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States and has received numerous awards for its innovative technology and business practices.
Learn more about DocuSign
Size
7,461 employees
Market Cap
$10.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$243.2 million
Founded
2003
5 Year Trend
+40.8%
Revenue
$1.4 billion
NASDAQ

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