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).
As a Lead Software Engineer, Sales within Docusign's Applications Engineering Team, you will design, build, and scale enterprise-grade applications on the Salesforce,React,AWS and C# platform. You will work across all GTM pillars—Sales, Success, Partner to deliver secure, resilient, and intelligent business solutions. This role combines deep Salesforce and Backend technical expertise with an AI-first mindset, helping shape the next generation of agentic and autonomous workflows within Docusign.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr Manager, GTM Engineering.
Explore and integrate hyperautomation technologies including AI/ML, intelligent document processing, and process mining
Lead experimentation for new automation capabilities and platforms
Design and develop backend services and domain logic layers within the Salesforce and other adjacent GTM platforms, treating Apex as a server-side programming environment for enterprise application development
Provide hands-on coding/ technical support during US PDT hours including month end and quarter ends
Architect and implement API-first and event-driven integrations across distributed systems (e.g., Salesforce, AWS services, internal platforms) using REST, Platform Events, and middleware
Design and build enterprise-grade, code-driven applications using Lightning Web Components, Angular and React with a strong emphasis on scalable frontend layer and service orchestration
Design systems to support high-volume, enterprise-scale workloads, including bulk processing, asynchronous patterns, and large data volumes
Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, CI/CD automation, deployment strategies, and production support
Develop and maintain reusable frameworks, shared services, and platform utilities to standardize engineering practices and improve developer productivity
Lead performance optimization and scalability initiatives, including bulkification, asynchronous processing strategies, and system throughput improvements
Implement observability and reliability patterns, including structured logging, monitoring (e.g., Datadog), alerting, and proactive incident detection and resolution
Drive technical debt remediation and platform hardening, including refactoring legacy code, improving test coverage, and enforcing engineering standards
Partner with product and engineering teams to define and deliver scalable system capabilities and services
Own production system health, including incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements
Contribute to AI-enabled and agent-driven workflows by integrating Salesforce with external AI services and automation platforms
Mentor engineers and conduct rigorous code reviews, enforcing software engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
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.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
10+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience (Apex, LWC/LWR, APIs), strong SQL knowledge, and exposure to AI/ML integrations
Strong integration experience using REST/SOAP, Platform Events, or middleware (MuleSoft)
Proven expertise in performance optimization, scalability planning, and platform health assessments
Experience with Service Cloud and/or Experience Cloud (Communities)
Familiarity with Salesforce DevOps using GitHub, SFDX, and CI/CD pipelines
Salesforce Platform Engineer I (PD1) certification
Salesforce Platform Engineer II (PD2) or Application Architect certification
Experience supporting large-scale orgs (1000+ users) with strong governance and deployment controls
Hands-on experience with modern Salesforce frameworks (LWC, Flow Orchestration, API-led connectivity)
Proven experience integrating Salesforce with AI, LLMs, or agentic frameworks
Familiarity with security hardening, data masking, and vulnerability analysis
Experience with Apex testing frameworks (ApexMocks, Jest) or static analysis tools (Salesforce Code Analyzer)
Contributions to internal accelerators, reusable libraries, or governance toolsExcellent communication and collaboration skills across global teams
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.
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
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If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at
[email protected] for assistance.
