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If you have any concerns or questions about communications you have received, please send them to  so our team members can review.\nAbout NetDocuments\nAt 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.\nOur 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.\nInnovation 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.\nThat commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:\nFour consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies\nFive-time Top Workplace USA winner\nFive-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace\nMultiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits\nIf 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.\nWhat You’ll Do\nNetDocuments is seeking a Principal Software Engineer - Intelligent DMS to provide technical leadership across the next generation of our document management platform. This role will help shape the architecture connecting our new web and mobile experiences, design system, extended applications, Microsoft 365 integrations, desktop applications, and AI-powered capabilities into a cohesive platform. You’ll operate as a deeply hands-on technical leader, spending the majority of your time solving complex engineering problems while driving architectural decisions that span multiple teams and products. You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, platform engineering, and our AI teams to establish scalable patterns, simplify complex systems, and ensure the experiences we build meet the reliability, security, performance, and usability standards expected by the world’s leading legal organizations.\nYou will:\nTechnical Leadership & Architecture\nProvide technical leadership across the Intelligent DMS organization, establishing architectural direction and engineering standards that span multiple teams and product surfaces.\nLead architectural decisions across web, mobile, backend services, Microsoft 365 integrations, desktop applications, and AI-powered experiences.\nDefine shared technical patterns, component contracts, data models, permission models, and integration approaches that create a cohesive platform.\nLead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives from early product ideation through architecture, implementation, and production.\nEvaluate architectural trade-offs across scalability, security, performance, usability, maintainability, and speed of delivery.\nSimplify complex systems and establish technical foundations that enable teams to move faster as the platform evolves.\nDesign & Build\nContribute directly to the most complex and consequential areas of the Intelligent DMS platform.\nDesign and build cloud-native applications, microservices, integrations, and customer-facing experiences at enterprise scale.\nHelp architect the next-generation web and mobile applications and the backend services that support them.\nEstablish patterns for integrating AI capabilities such as assistants, summarization, extraction, and intelligent search into everyday document workflows.\nLead technical design for Microsoft 365 experiences, including co-authoring and integrations across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.\nDesign solutions that maintain correctness, security, and matter-levl permissions across highly concurrent and distributed workflows.\nPlatform Evolution & Modernization\nDefine technical strategies for evolving mature applications and integrations onto the next-generation platform without disrupting critical customer workflows.\nEstablish migration patterns that allow legacy and next-generation experiences to operate effectively during platform transitions.\nDrive technical coherence across extended applications, desktop clients, sync, import, browser extensions, mobile applications, and Microsoft 365 integrations.\nPartner with platform and AI engineering teams to establish scalable integration patterns for shared services and capabilities.\nSet performance and reliability standards for customer-facing applications and drive systemic improvements required to meet them.\nCross-Team Technical Leadership\nLead technical initiatives involving multiple engineering teams without relying on formal reporting authority.\nBuild alignment across Engineering, Product, Design, Platform, and AI teams around architectural direction and implementation strategy.\nTranslate ambiguous product opportunities into clear technical requirements, architecture, and executable plans.\nDocument architectural decisions and ensure teams understand the reasoning, trade-offs, and standards behind them.\nServe as a technical escalation point when teams encounter complex architectural or engineering challenges.\nEngineering Excellence & Mentorship\nMentor engineers across experience levels, including Senior and Staff Engineers, and provide guidance on architecture, system design, and engineering practices.\nDrive testing, quality, security, and reliability strategies across the Intelligent DMS organization.\nEstablish and maintain architecture documentation, engineering standards, and technical patterns that scale beyond individual projects.\nLead design and code reviews for complex or high-impact initiatives.\nPartner with other Principal Engineers and our Chief Architect to advance technical excellence across the broader engineering organization.\nSupport recruiting and interviewing efforts to help build a high-performing engineering team.\nContinuous Learning & Innovation\nStay current with advancements in AI-native product development, distributed systems, cloud architecture, and modern software engineering.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and determine where they can meaningfully improve customer experience or engineering effectiveness.\nValidate new technical approaches with real users and production feedback before scaling them broadly.\nChampion engineering practices that prioritize simplicity, measurable customer value, and sustainable technical foundations.\nWhat You’ll Need to Be Successful\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience operating at the Staff level or above.\nProven experience setting architecture and technical direction across multiple products, systems, or engineering teams.\nExperience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives without formal authority and driving alignment across engineering stakeholders.\nDeep expertise in system design, distributed systems, cloud applications, microservices, and enterprise-scale integrations.\nStrong full stack engineering experience with the ability to work across frontend and backend systems; our technology stack includes C#, .NET, React, and TypeScript.\nExperience designing and operating cloud-native systems using AWS, Azure, or comparable cloud technologies.\nExperience translating ambiguous product requirements into clear technical architecture and implementation plans.\nDemonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and providing technical guidance across teams.\nStrong technical writing skills with experience creating architecture documents, design proposals, and technical decision records.\nWhat Will Make You Stand Out\nExperience shipping AI-native product experiences where AI is fundamental to the product workflow.\nExperience operating multi-tenant enterprise platforms with strict security, compliance, or data residency requirements.\nExperience with Microsoft 365 extensibility, including Office add-ins, Microsoft Graph, or co-authoring technologies.\nExperience modernizing legacy applications while maintaining heavily used production systems and managing complex customer migrations.\nExperience in legal technology, professional-services SaaS, or other regulated enterprise software environments.\nPublic examples of technical leadership through conference speaking, technical writing, open-source contributions, or architectural patterns adopted by other teams.\nA track record of leading complex technical initiatives through both successful outcomes and lessons learned from approaches that did not work.\nWhat You’ll Love About NetDocuments\nThe People!\n90% healthcare premiums company covered\nHSA company contribution\n401(k) match at 4% with immediate vesting\nFlexible PTO (typically 3 to 4 weeks a year)\n10 paid holidays\nMonthly contributions for life activities & wellness\nAccess to LinkedIn Learning with monthly dedicated time to explore\nConnection, access, and mentorship from exceptional leaders\nGrowing company with opportunities for advancement\nAuthenticity and accountability from leadership\nCompensation Transparency\nThe compensation range for this position is $200,000 - $220,000.\nThe posted cash compensation includes on-target earnings. 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