Principal Software Engineer - Platform Evolution

Software Engineering Lehi, Utah United States


Description

Company Intro 
 
NetDocuments is the world’s #1 trusted cloud-based content management and productivity platform that helps legal professionals do their best work. We strive to win together through passionate hard work, exploring new things and recognizing every interaction matters. 
 
NetDocuments provides rewarding career growth in an inclusive, diverse environment where employees are encouraged to openly contribute creative ideas and innovation, backed by supportive peers and leadership working together to achieve our goals as a unified team. 
 
At our core, we are dedicated to empowering our employees to drive successful business outcomes and better user experiences for our customers and partners. Our customer-centric approach and employee enablement has allowed us to enjoy many accolades, including being named among the 2022,  2023, & 2024 list of Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America. 
 
Other recent awards include: 
• Two-time winner (2024, 2023) National Top Workplaces 
• Two-time winner (2024, 2023) Top Workplace innovation 
• Three-time winner (2023, 2022, 2021) Top Workplace in the US by the Salt Lake Tribune 
• Three-time winner (2023, 2022, 2021) Best Companies to Work for by Utah Business magazine 
• Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Work-Life Flexibility 
• Three-time winner (2024, 2023, 2022) Top Workplace Compensation & Benefits 
• 2024 Cultural Excellence 
• 2024 Technology Industry  
• 2023 Top Workplace Leadership 
• 2023 Top Workplace Purpose & Values 
• 2022 Top Workplace Employee Appreciation and Employee Well Being 
 
NetDocuments is a hybrid, remote-friendly workplace. Come join our team and work inspired each day! 
 
Your Opportunity For Impact 
NetDocuments is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with deep knowledge and experience building, deploying, and scaling full-stack applications. The ideal candidate can demonstrate expertise leading technical direction for their team. This position reports to the Senior Director of Engineering.     
 
What your Contributions Will Be 
  • This position will consist of 50% in the code, 30% mentoring other engineers, and 20% collaborating closely with partners in product management and product design 
  • Guide and mentor team development efforts towards successful project delivery 
  • Create and document architectural designs through diagrams and logical flows within Miro or similar tool 
  • Build and test new designs, formulations, materials, or systems for compliance with quality and/or performance standards 
  • Gauge platform performance and take corrective action to optimize system behavior 
  • Recommend and research new ideas and prove them out through POCs and POTs 
  • Determine operational feasibility by providing analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions 
  • Stay on the leading edge of development practices 
  • Partner with Product Management and Product Design counterparts 
  • Work side-by-side with key Staff, Principal and Distinguished Engineers to design and build scalable solutions 
 
What you Bring to the Team 
  • Experience with building B2B SaaS products     
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience  
  • 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership role  
  • Experience with .NET / C# language  
  • Serves as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects  
  • Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems  
  • Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions  
  • Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations  
  • Extensive experience communicating with services using REST and GraphQL  
  • Experience with AWS public clouds  
  • Experience with breaking up a monolith into smaller services with domain teams  
  • Excellent collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills  
  • Ability to add transparency to the health of running applications through logging and telemetry for proactively triaging system issues and hardening the performance of applications.  
  
Priority consideration for applicants who have experience with:  
  • Strong AWS and Azure experience  
  • Distributed systems  
  • Event driven architecture  
  • Legal industry expertise 
 
Benefits 
  • 90% healthcare premiums company covered 
  • HSA company contribution 
  • 401K match at 4% with immediate vesting 
  • Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year) 
  • 9 paid holidays 
  • Monthly contributions for wellness 
  • Access to LinkedIn learning with monthly dedicated time to explore 
 
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.