Staff Python Engineer, Document App Track

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.

What you'll do

• 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.

Who you are

• 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.

Tech stack / stack

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

Team description

Document Domain team responsible for core document creation, editing, and management functionality; collaboration across tracks to deliver best-in-class document capabilities while maintaining technical excellence.

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)