Lead Software Engineer

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).

What you're doing

Operating a global, always‑on platform requires clear signal and fast insight. As a Lead Frontend Engineer, you will set the technical direction for our observability UI dashboards, explorers, query builders, and alert workflows so engineers can make confident, real‑time decisions. You will lead complex projects, raise the bar on usability, performance, and accessibility, and mentor senior engineers. This position is an individual‑contributor role reporting to the Engineering Manager, Reliability Tooling.

Responsibilities

Lead the frontend technical strategy for observability surfaces (dashboards, traces / metrics / logs explorers, SLO burn‑rate views, service maps, alert & annotation flows), aligning UX, performance, and reliability goals

Own complex projects end‑to‑end from design review and architectural decisions through delivery, rollout, and post‑launch iteration

Establish patterns for state management, data fetching, error handling, and runtime resiliency

Champion performance budgets and SLOs

Collaborate with Product, SRE, and Telemetry Platform teams to shape requirements, APIs, and paved‑road UI components

Expand and maintain shared components, design‑system alignment, documentation, and CI / CD checks to speed safe delivery

Coach senior engineers, lead design reviews, and model best practices in testing, observability, and maintainability

Participate in on‑call for the UI tier

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

12+ years of professional frontend engineering experience building production web applications, including 3+ years leading projects or serving as a tech lead

Experience with JavaScript / TypeScript and a modern component framework (e.g., React)

Experience delivering data‑intensive UIs (large time‑series sets, live updates, heavy filtering / search) with attention to performance and usability

Experience with testing discipline (unit, integration, and end‑to‑end), code review rigor, and CI practices

Preferred

Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to drive clarity across engineering, product, and design

Experience with React + TypeScript at scale; comfort with server‑side integration patterns (e.g., Node.js / SSR) and API design (REST / GraphQL)

Practical familiarity with data visualization libraries (e.g., D3, ECharts, Vega / VisX, Highcharts) and techniques (virtualization, canvas / WebGL rendering)

Experience building for reliability and performance : Core Web Vitals, code splitting, error boundaries, retry / backoff, client‑side caching, and graceful offline / slow‑network behavior

Experience with micro‑frontends or large‑scale modularization; design‑system tooling (e.g., Storybook)

Exposure to observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces), query patterns (e.g., PromQL‑like or LogQL‑like experiences), and OpenTelemetry‑informed UX

Comfortable collaborating with distributed teams and mentoring senior engineers

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 : $177,900.00 - $287,425.00 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 :

Life at Docusign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

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States Not Eligible for Employment

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states : Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can‑do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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