Lead Software Automation (Solution) Engineer

PandaDoc is seeking a Lead Software Automation (Solution) Engineer to join our Platform Track

At PandaDoc, our engineering teams are divided into product teams, which focus on delivering new features, and platform teams, which ensure PandaDoc can scale effortlessly and continue to innovate globally.

As a Lead Software Automation Engineer on the Automation Platform team, you’ll play a vital role in enhancing productivity, quality, and innovation by developing internal automated solutions and tools that simplify and improve our delivery process. Your contributions will enable our product teams to move faster and more efficiently.

In this role, you will:

• Optimize development by reducing manual intervention and ensuring consistent delivery with improved tools and approaches
• Partner with DevEx and development teams to resolve bottlenecks and enhance the developer experience
• Integrate automated solutins into our software and infrastructure to continuously improve stability, quality, and efficiency
• Develop and refine tools and techniques across the organization, including:
  Automated test workflows (unit, integration, E2E)
  Cycle time improvements (CI/CD pipelines, automated code verifications, deployment scripts, etc.)
• Build and execute a technical roadmap for a small team of engineers focused on automating processes, reducing cycle times, and improving product quality
• Guide engineering teams in adopting best practices and advocate for clean code and high technical standards

Our stack:

• Service-oriented architecture, including legacy code and monolithic services based on the Django framework
• Two main stacks: Python (AsyncIO frameworks, Django-based services) and Java (Spring Boot, Java 11, Gradle)
• Extensive use of AWS and K8S for provisioning and deploying workloads
• Main cross-service communication transports: 
• Grafana stack for monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing
• Testing frameworks and tools: PyTest, Selenium, Playwright, Appium

About you:

• 5+ years of development experience with Python/Java
• 2-3+ years in leadership or senior engineering roles
• Expertise in developing and integrating automation solutions to improve product quality and development efficiency (e.g., code quality checks, deployments, routine maintenance)
• Proficiency in DevOps methodologies and tools, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Familiarity with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, NATS, Kafka)
• Experience with cloud environments and infrastructure as code is a plus
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and change management skills
• Effective communication skills in English, both spoken and written

Company Overview: 

PandaDoc empowers more than 50,000 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. 

Check out our LinkedIn to learn more.

Benefits:

• An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development
• An opportunity to work from anywhere — our team is distributed worldwide, from Lisbon to Manila, from Florida to California
• 6 self care days
• A competitive salary
• And much more!

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.