Staff Software Engineer

NetDocuments
Hyderabad, India
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience with platform engineering and cross-team collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of experience in platform engineering and technical leadership roles
    — “8+ years of professional software engineering experience, currently operating at the Staff level.”
  • Individuals who have shaped technical direction and influenced teams without formal management roles
    — “Experience shaping technical direction and influencing other engineers without formal management authority.”
  • Professionals with a background in legal technology or regulated enterprise software
    — “Experience in legal technology, professional-services SaaS, or other regulated enterprise software environments.”

Things to consider

  • Travel to the US is required approximately 1–2 weeks per year
    — “Travel occasionally to the US (approximately 1–2 weeks per year)”
  • Candidates must be able to mentor and raise team standards
    — “Mentor and raise the technical bar for the team, day-to-day.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight public examples of technical leadership, such as conference speaking or open-source work
    — “Public examples of technical leadership: conference speaking, technical writing, open-source contributions, or patterns adopted by other teams.”
  • Emphasize experience with internal developer tooling and CI/CD systems at scale
    — “Deep hands-on experience building internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or platform engineering at scale.”
  • Showcase ability to balance architectural ideals with practical delivery timelines
    — “Strong technical judgment, balancing architectural ideals against delivery timelines and team maturity.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • served as the primary hands-on builder for complex platform and tooling problems
  • driven complex, high-impact projects end-to-end
  • reinforced shared technical standards and patterns
Typical background
background in software engineeringexperience in architecture and technical leadership

Skills & requirements

Required

Deep Technical ExecutionArchitectureTechnical InfluenceCross-team CollaborationHiring

Preferred

Legal Context GraphAI Integration

Stack & domain

Document ManagementLegal TechnologyPlatform ArchitectureTooling ProblemsArchitecture RecommendationsTechnical StandardsTechnical LeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkIndependent ThinkingLegal Context GraphEnterprise SecurityLegal Professionals

About the role

Original posting from NetDocuments via Greenhouse

NetDocuments is committed to providing an excellent candidate experience and will never ask you to engage in recruitment activity without phone, video, and in person meetings and communications from emails using the @netdocuments.com domain. If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to hrgroup@netdocuments.com so our team members can review.

About NetDocuments

At NetDocuments, we're shaping the future of legal work. We believe legal professionals should spend less time searching for information and managing documents, and more time solving complex problems, serving clients, and delivering meaningful outcomes. That's why we're building technology that helps organizations work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and unlock the full value of their institutional knowledge.

Our team is redefining what's possible for legal technology. NetDocuments is the trusted intelligent document management platform for legal professionals and the company behind the industry's first and only legal context graph—a breakthrough that gives legal professionals and AI a richer understanding of how matters, documents, people, and knowledge connect across an organization while respecting enterprise-grade security, governance, permissions, and ethical walls.

Innovation is only part of our story. We believe our greatest strength is our people. We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact. Whether you're building products, serving customers, or supporting the business, your work helps shape the future of one of the world's most trusted legal technology platforms.

That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:

Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Five-time Top Workplace USA winner

Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace

Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits

If you're excited to solve meaningful challenges, work alongside talented colleagues, and help define the next generation of legal technology, we'd love to meet you.

You will: 

Deep Technical Execution 

Serve as the primary hands-on builder for the most complex platform and tooling problems the DevX team takes on.

Drive complex, high-impact projects end-to-end with minimal oversight.

Balance architectural ideals against delivery timelines and team maturity, making pragmatic tradeoffs.

Architecture & Technical Influence

Shape and constructively challenge technical direction across the team, offering credible alternatives grounded in hands-on experience.

Partner with the Principal Software Engineer on architecture and build-vs-buy recommendations, bringing an independent technical perspective.

Reinforce shared technical standards and patterns established for tooling adopted company-wide. 

Cross-Team Technical Credibility & Hiring 

Build direct technical trust and relationships with other engineering teams, independent of the Principal's relationship.

Travel occasionally to the US (approximately 1–2 weeks per year) to deepen technical collaboration with US engineering leadership.

Participate in interviews and technical evaluation for Senior engineering candidates.

Mentorship & Team Standards

Mentor and raise the technical bar for the team, day-to-day.

Lead by example in design and code reviews, reinforcing best practices in tooling and platform engineering.

Communicate technical decisions and standards through design docs, Architecture Decision Reviews, and reviews that build buy-in across the team. 

What You'll Need to Be Successful 

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, currently operating at the Staff level.

Deep hands-on experience building internal developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or platform engineering at scale.

Strong fluency across C#, .NET, Python, AWS, and Java.

Experience shaping technical direction and influencing other engineers without formal management authority.

Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team.

Experience participating in technical hiring and interviews.

Strong technical judgment, balancing architectural ideals against delivery timelines and team maturity.

Strong communication skills, with experience building trust and credibility with distributed engineering teams.

What Will Make You Stand Out

Prior experience as a Staff-level engineer on a Platform or Developer Experience team.

Experience acting as a technical bridge between distributed, cross-country engineering teams.

Experience in legal technology, professional-services SaaS, or other regulated enterprise software environments.

Public examples of technical leadership: conference speaking, technical writing, open-source contributions, or patterns adopted by other teams.

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. 

Source: NetDocuments careers (Greenhouse)

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