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.
- 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.
- 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
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 proposals, quotes, contracts, and more. For more information, please visit https://www.pandadoc.com.
Company Culture:We're known for our work-life balance, kind co-workers, & creative virtual team-bonding events. And although our Pandas are located across the globe, we stay connected with the help of technology and ensure that everyone on our team feels, well, like a team.
Pandas work best when they're happy. We retain our talent by upholding our values of integrity & transparency, and selling a product that changes the lives of our customers.
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What We Offer- Global & Flexible Work: We’re a global, remote-first company, but we welcome you to visit our vibrant offices in Warsaw, Lisbon, or Kyiv to connect with colleagues whenever it suits you.
- Ownership & Growth: Work on a stable yet growing SaaS product, offering an agile environment, significant ownership, and a clear path for professional development within the Platform Engineering domain.
- Culture & Balance: Enjoy an honest, open culture that values constructive feedback and promotes a strong work-life balance within a supportive, distributed team.
- Compensation: Competitive compensation package and flexible contract arrangements tailored to your location and experience (If you are located in Poland the salary range is 30,400 PLN to 45,500 PLN gross monthly)
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.
EXTERNAL RECRUITERS
Approval Requirement
The use of external recruiters/staffing agencies requires prior approval from our HR Team. The HR Team at PandaDoc requests that external recruiters/staffing agencies not to contact PandaDoc employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. Complying with this request will be a factor in determining future professional relationships with PandaDoc.
Skills Required
- At least 6+ years of development experience with Python
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (SQL, migrations, optimization)
- Experience with message queues and event-driven systems (RabbitMQ, NATS, Kafka)
- Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) fundamentals
- Experience with asynchronous programming (AsyncIO)
- Fluency with AI-driven development workflows to improve productivity
- Mentoring and developing other engineers
- Experience working on domain strategy and planning for a one-year horizon
- Good understanding of full development lifecycle, deployment, and application monitoring
- Extensive hands-on experience developing applications
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly in English, verbally and in writing
PandaDoc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PandaDoc and has not been reviewed or approved by PandaDoc.
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Healthcare Strength — Employer-covered medical with low-deductible options plus comprehensive dental and vision create a strong core benefits foundation. Mental-health support and disability/life coverage further reinforce overall healthcare strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO that increases with tenure, separate self-care days, paid holidays, and a birthday day off point to ample time away from work. Paid parental leave for all parents, with extended time for birth parents, adds meaningful depth to the leave offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote-first setup with flexible schedules, wellness initiatives/allowances, and a home-office stipend support day-to-day wellbeing. Education stipends and regular team events contribute to lifestyle and growth outside base pay.
PandaDoc Insights
What We Do
Since its founding in 2013, PandaDoc has been on a mission to empower growing businesses to thrive by taking the work out of document workflows. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform with eSignature capabilities that helps fast scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage and sign digital documents, including proposals, quotes and contracts and more. More than 30,000 customers are using PandaDoc to improve document workflow, insights and speed while providing an amazing experience for the end users. PandaDoc is backed by leading venture firms and corporate investors, including OMERS Growth Equity, G-Squared, Altos Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, One Peak Partners, M12 (Microsoft), and HubSpot. PandaDoc is proudly a remote-first global company.
Why Work With Us
Maintaining and preserving our company culture is imperative as we continue to grow, especially as a remote-first company. Our culture is centered on hiring the best and empowering them to do their jobs - provide employees the right technology to succeed, encourage risk taking, and foster an environment built on transparency, trust and empathy.
