Krishna Dey Shipped · Core product systems
Multi-Party Contracts
Replaced SpotDraft's fixed two-party contract assumption with configurable party roles, so contract creation, questionnaires, and publishing could support more than one organization or individual on either side of an agreement.
Software Engineer, creation-side design and delivery
Shipped.
Challenge
Contract creation assumed a single creator and a single counterparty. That covered simple bilateral contracts but broke down for workflows where several organizations or individuals held distinct roles in the same agreement.
Approach
I authored the backend specification for multi-party contracts, then built the creation-flow changes: request models that accepted a list of counterparties instead of one fixed party, optional party-role identifiers, publishing validation requiring a creator and at least one counterparty, and party-role support inside the Questionnaire V2 APIs it was built on. I also worked through full-workspace enablement and migration checks for templates created before the new model existed.
Outcome
Multi-party support shipped and was migrated and enabled across workspaces, letting teams configure and label multiple parties in a single contract workflow and reuse party roles inside questionnaires and later workflow configuration.
What it taught
Moving from a fixed pair to a configurable collection of roles touches more of the system than the data model: request schemas, questionnaire responses, template migration, and workflow variables all had to move together.
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