Staff Python Engineer, Document App Track

## About the role Currently, PandaDoc is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Document App Track. The role is part of the Document Domain team, which owns one of the most critical components of our platform — the document itself. While primarily focused on the Document Domain team, this engineer will also have an impact across the area and track level. The team is responsible for the core functionality that powers document creation, editing, and management across the product. The Staff Engineer will contribute to the long-term domain excellence strategy, including AI Transformation of the Development Workflow, and collaborate with other tracks to deliver the best product solutions while maintaining technical excellence. The responsibilities include improving reliability, maintaining high-quality standards, enhancing developer experience, and evolving the document platform to support new product capabilities. Are you adaptable, driven, and friendly? Do you thrive in a fast-paced work environment where collaboration is the norm? If the answer is yes, then you're a Panda, and we want you to join our team. ## In this role, you will: - Drive the long term evolution and technical strategy of the Document Domain, balancing product needs, scalability, reliability, and developer experience. - Champion AI-driven development workflows, mentoring engineers and improving the effectiveness, quality, and productivity of the engineering organization. - Lead cross-team initiatives to deliver best-in-class document capabilities while aligning architecture and engineering practices across the track. ## About you: - At least 6+ years of development experience with Python. - Strong knowledge of relational databases (SQL, migrations, optimization), message queues (RabbitMQ, NATS, Kafka), event-driven systems, DDD fundamentals, and asynchronous programming. - Be fluent with AI workflow for development in order to leverage your own productivity and impact on the productivity of other team members. - Mentoring other engineers within the company to ensure their tech growth. - Working on domain strategy, being able to identify challenges and make solid plans for a horizon of one year. - Good understanding of the development cycle from requirements analysis and deployment to application monitoring. - Extensive hands-on experience in developing applications. - Able to communicate technical ideas clearly in English across engineering teams, both verbally and in writing. ## Our stack: - Microservice fleet around a large monolithic application in Django - PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached - Python, Django - Amazon Web Services - Docker, Kubernetes - Kafka, NATS - AsyncIO - Grafana Monitoring Stack: Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Grafana ## Company Overview: PandaDoc empowers more than 67,000 growing organizations to thrive by taking the work out of document workflow. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents including pr