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About NetDocuments

At 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.

Our 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.

Innovation 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.

That commitment to our employees and customers has earned us recognition as one of the nation's top workplaces, including:

Four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
Five-time Top Workplace USA winner
Five-time Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplace
Multiple Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards recognizing innovation, employee appreciation, work-life flexibility, and compensation & benefits

If 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.

What You’ll Do

NetDocuments 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.

You will:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Provide technical leadership across the Intelligent DMS organization, establishing architectural direction and engineering standards that span multiple teams and product surfaces.
Lead architectural decisions across web, mobile, backend services, Microsoft 365 integrations, desktop applications, and AI-powered experiences.
Define shared technical patterns, component contracts, data models, permission models, and integration approaches that create a cohesive platform.
Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives from early product ideation through architecture, implementation, and production.
Evaluate architectural trade-offs across scalability, security, performance, usability, maintainability, and speed of delivery.