Staff Python Engineer, Document App Track - PandaDoc

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

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