Staff Python Engineer, Document App Track

Pandadoc; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 30,400 - 45,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Multisport Card

Healthcare coverage

Life insurance protection

Onboarding benefit allowance

Self-care days

Learning and development budgets

Stock purchase option

Job summary

PandaDoc is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Document App Track in New York. This role focuses on enhancing the document platform's core functionality with an emphasis on AI-driven development.

The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of Python experience and extensive knowledge in relational databases, asynchronous programming, and mentoring engineers. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of development experience with Python.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and optimization.
• Fluency with AI workflows for productivity improvement.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy of the Document Domain supporting product scalability.
• Champion AI development workflows and mentor engineers.
• Lead initiatives for best document capabilities across teams.

Skills

Python

Relational databases (SQL)

Event-driven systems

Mentoring

Asynchronous programming

AI workflows

Tools

Django

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

Job description

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 thecore 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

What We Offer

Our team members and their families have access to comprehensive benefits including:

• Multisport Card for fitness and wellness activities (individual or family plan).
• Competitive salary (If you are located in Poland the salary range is 30,400 PLN to 45,500 PLN gross monthly).
• LuxMed healthcare coverage (individual or family plan).
• UNUM life insurance protection (individual or family plan).
• Onboarding benefit allowance that can be used for necessary work equipment and setup.
• 6 self‑care days beyond standard Polish vacation entitlements.
• Wellness, learning and development budgets.
• Employees may be able to purchase company stock or receive annual bonuses.

PandaDoc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal treatment of all employees without regard to race, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability or other basis protected by law.