Staff Software Engineer

NetDocuments

. Lead the technical direction of a backend engineering team .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • Utah • United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading backend engineering teams, architecting cloud-native systems, and implementing scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Proficient in modern backend languages and technologies, with a strong focus on performance, observability, and AI integration.

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Technical LeadershipCloud Native Backend SystemsEvent Driven ArchitectureC#/.NET DevelopmentObservability Implementation

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Hard Skills

Cloud Native ArchitectureDistributed Systems DesignBackend DevelopmentEvent Driven SystemsAsynchronous ProcessingAutomated TestingCI/CD PracticesData Pipeline ManagementPerformance OptimizationSecurity Compliance

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationTechnical DocumentationKnowledge SharingProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

AWSECSLambdaSQSDynamoDBS3Logging ToolsTelemetry ToolsAI ToolsSearch Technologies

Industry Keywords

B2B SaaSLegal TechnologyRegulated EnvironmentsContent ServicesEnterprise Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBJavaOpen SourcePythonGo.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the technical direction of a backend engineering team
Serve as a hands-on technical leader and define engineering standards
Lead architectural discussions and make technical decisions across services and distributed systems
Establish patterns for scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable systems
Guide technology stack evolution as products mature and scale
Drive improvements in performance, reliability, cost efficiency, developer experience, and engineering quality
Architect and build production-grade, cloud-native backend services and APIs
Design event-driven, service-oriented systems and data pipelines resilient to load, retries, and partial failure
Build secure systems for processing, organizing, and surfacing large volumes of content, including search, retrieval, and AI capabilities
Integrate AI-powered services and emerging technologies
Design for security, permissions, governance, compliance, and data protection
Instrument services with logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and telemetry
Improve throughput, latency, scalability, and cost
Design for idempotency, ordering, deduplication, rate limiting, and safe reprocessing
Own complex technical initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing operation
Evaluate architectural tradeoffs across performance, cost, security, scalability, and maintainability
Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, system designs, and technical decisions
Partner with Product, Design, Platform Services, engineering leadership, and other engineering teams
Mentor engineers and raise technical capabilities and engineering practices
Lead knowledge sharing through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and hands-on guidance
Research and validate emerging technologies through proofs of concept
Identify opportunities to improve customer experience and engineering velocity
Leverage modern development and AI tooling to increase engineering effectiveness

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production grade systems at scale
3+ years providing technical leadership and influencing engineering direction and practices
Deep experience designing and operating distributed, cloud native backend systems, ideally on AWS (services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and S3)
Strong experience with event driven and service oriented architectures, including asynchronous processing, queueing, idempotency, and handling failure and retries
Proven ability to build systems that are performant, reliable, and cost effective at high volume
Strong backend development experience in a modern backend language; C#/.NET is the preferred stack, with Python, Java, or Go also valued
Experience implementing observability in production: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and telemetry
Working familiarity with modern AI and its application in production software
Experience with automated testing, CI/CD practices, and operating production services
Experience building search, retrieval, or other data intensive systems at scale is a differentiator
Familiarity with semantic or vector search, embeddings, and retrieval augmented generation is a differentiator
Experience operating high throughput data or processing pipelines is a differentiator
Experience building document management, content services, or enterprise systems is a differentiator
Experience integrating AI or agent facing services into production applications is a differentiator
Experience building B2B SaaS in legal or other regulated, security sensitive environments is a differentiator
Contributions to open source, technical writing, or sharing technical expertise are a differentiator

Benefits

Comp & perks

90% healthcare premiums company covered
HSA company contribution
401K match at 4% with immediate vesting
Flexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)
10 paid holidays
Monthly contributions for life activities & wellness
Access to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore
Connection, access, and mentorship from exceptional leaders
Growing company with opportunities for advancement
Authenticity and accountability from leadership