Staff Software Engineer - Next-Gen

NetDocuments is a legal technology company building an intelligent document management platform for legal professionals. The Staff Software Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership and architect scalable, event-driven full stack systems using React, TypeScript, Node.js, C#/.NET, and AWS, while driving performance, reliability, security, AI integration, and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a hands-on technical leader, helping define technical direction and engineering standards across the team
• Lead architectural discussions and make technical decisions across frontend, backend, and distributed systems
• Establish patterns for building scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable applications
• Guide the evolution of the technology stack as the platform matures and scales
• Drive technical initiatives that improve system performance, reliability, developer experience, and engineering quality
• Architect and build production-grade full stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, C#/.NET, and AWS
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using AWS services, Kafka, and modern data pipelines
• Build responsive frontend experiences that make complex document management workflows intuitive and efficient
• Design scalable REST and GraphQL APIs that power product experiences and third-party integrations
• Build content enrichment and search capabilities that surface insights across large volumes of documents
• Integrate AI-powered services and emerging technologies that enhance document intelligence and user productivity
• Design resilient systems that maintain reliability and performance as the platform scales globally
• Instrument applications with logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and telemetry to proactively identify and diagnose issues
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to scalability and reliability
• Ensure security, performance, and compliance requirements are incorporated throughout system design and implementation
• Proactively identify and address technical debt across the platform
• Own complex technical initiatives from initial design through production deployment and ongoing evolution
• Solve challenges across areas such as real-time search, event-driven document processing, frontend performance, and distributed systems
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs across performance, usability, security, scalability, and maintainability
• Create clear technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, system designs, and key technical decisions
• Partner closely with Product and Design to translate customer and business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Mentor engineers across experience levels and help elevate technical capabilities and engineering practices across the team
• Collaborate with Platform Services and other engineering teams on shared infrastructure and integration points
• Build alignment around technical approaches and provide clear direction when decisions need to be made
• Lead knowledge sharing through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and hands-on technical guidance
• Stay current with modern full stack development, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and AI-powered technologies
• Research and validate emerging technologies through proof-of-concepts aligned with product and engineering strategy
• Identify opportunities to improve both customer experience and engineering velocity
• Leverage modern development and AI tooling to increase engineering effectiveness and impact

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications at scale
• 3+ years of experience providing technical leadership and influencing engineering direction and practices
• Deep experience with React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript
• Strong backend development experience with C#/.NET or Java and TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience designing and operating event-driven, service-oriented, and microservices architectures
• Experience building distributed, cloud-native systems using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and S3
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies such as DynamoDB or DocumentDB and relational SQL databases
• Strong experience designing REST and GraphQL APIs, including API security and versioning strategies
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming and messaging technologies
• Experience implementing logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and telemetry for production systems
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD practices, and supporting production applications
• Experience building document management, content services, or search-driven applications
• Deep expertise with event-driven architectures and Kafka
• Experience building high-performance React applications at scale
• Experience integrating AI-powered services into production applications
• Experience building B2B SaaS products in the legal industry or other regulated environments
• Mobile development or cross-platform application experience
• Contributions to open-source projects, technical writing, or experience sharing technical expertise with broader engineering communities