Software Engineer Intern

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer Intern on the Signing Core Backend (SCORE) team, you will help re-architect Docusign's eSign branding capability into a centralized microservice that high-value customers rely on to deliver a consistent brand experience across the Docusign ecosystem. You will work with RESTful and gRPC interfaces so customers can define their brand identity once and reuse it across multiple Docusign products and features, including validating branding configurations before they are applied to accounts. You'll contribute to moving branding compute into a dedicated Azure-hosted service, improving reuse, iteration speed, and support for new enhancements in our Tier-0 branding platform.

This is an internship role for 4 months of duration. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering.

Responsibility

- Collaborate with the SCORE team to design and implement a centralized branding microservice that powers cross-product brand consistency for eSign and related experiences

- Build and evolve RESTful and gRPC APIs that allow customers and internal services to define, retrieve, validate, and apply branding configurations in a consistent way

- Help migrate branding compute from legacy components into a dedicated Azure-based service, leveraging MSF patterns and standards for reliability and scalability

- Work on features that improve branding validation, so customers can preview and verify their brand setup before it is applied to production accounts, reducing misconfiguration risk

- Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure branding APIs and workflows are robust, observable, and safe for Tier-0 production use

- Partner with adjacent product and engineering teams that consume branding data (e.g., other signing surfaces and services) to support reuse and consistent experiences across products

- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and sprint ceremonies; incorporate feedback from your mentor and teammates to grow your engineering skills

- Write clear documentation for services, APIs, and operational runbooks to support long-term maintainability and broader adoption

Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in a relevant field with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and May/June 2028

- Experience with strong programming fundamentals and at least one modern language commonly used for backend services (e.g., C#, Java, Go, or similar)

- Experience with core computer science concepts such as data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design

- Experience with web services concepts (HTTP, REST) and basic API design

- Availability to participate in Docusign's 12-week hybrid internship program based in the Seattle hub, including required in-office days per program policy

Preferred

- Coursework or project experience in distributed systems, microservices architecture, or backend service development

- Exposure to cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and concepts like deployment pipelines, monitoring, and scalability

- Experience building or consuming APIs using REST; familiarity with gRPC or other RPC frameworks

- Experience with relational or NoSQL data stores, and awareness of data modeling concerns for multi-tenant services

- Prior internship, research, or significant project experience working on production-adjacent systems or developer platforms

- Interest in customer experience and design details, with a willingness to think about how branding and visual consistency affect end users

- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, take feedback, and communicate clearly with engineers and partners

Wage Transparency

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

Washington: $38/hour - $45/hour

Global benefits provide options for the following:

- Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region

- Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement

- Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment

- Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions

- Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements

- Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

Work Authorization Notice: Please note that we do not provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Life at DocuSign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at [email protected].

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at [email protected] for assistance.

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States Not Eligible for Employment

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

EEO Statement

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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