Software Developer: Developer Experience

The D. E. Shaw Group

$200K — $275K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher.
  • At least three years of experience in software development, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
  • Proficient coding and problem-solving skills, particularly in Linux environments.
  • Experience with integrations for IDEs, CI/CD systems, or developer productivity tools.
  • Understanding and interest in AI technologies for developer workflows.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills with experience in stakeholder engagement.
  • Proactive approach to enhancing developer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with users to understand needs and issues surrounding new tools.
  • Evaluate and integrate AI-powered developer tools to enhance adoption.
  • Build and maintain integrations to improve productivity and tooling.
  • Own the build tooling infrastructure for improved speed and reliability.
  • Contribute to SDLC improvements by streamlining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify friction points and requirements.
  • Deliver impactful solutions to enhance the development process.

Benefits

  • Medical and prescription drug coverage.
  • 401(k) contribution matching.
  • Wellness reimbursement.
  • Family building benefits.
  • Charitable gift matching program.
Full Job Description
What you'll do day-to-day

You'll join a collaborative and highly technical team to drive forward a best-in-class developer environment where you will:
  • Engage directly with users to understand needs, address issues, and promote adoption of new tools and processes.
  • Evaluate, integrate, and champion AI-powered developer tools, helping teams adopt these capabilities effectively and responsibly.
  • Build and maintain integrations and enhancements across IDEs to improve developer productivity, code navigation, and in-editor tooling.
  • Own and evolve our build tooling infrastructure, improving build speed, reliability, and reproducibility at scale across diverse codebases.
  • Contribute to Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) improvements by streamlining CI/CD pipelines, testing processes, and deployment workflows across teams.
  • Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the firm to identify friction points, gather requirements, and deliver impactful solutions.


What we're looking for

  • A bachelor's degree or higher and at least three years of professional experience in software development, infrastructure, or developer tooling roles.
  • Demonstrated coding proficiency and problem-solving skills, with experience in Linux environments.
  • Experience working with or building integrations for IDEs, CI/CD systems, version control platforms, or developer productivity tools.
  • Understanding of AI technologies and an interest in incorporating AI tooling in developer workflows.
  • Solid collaboration and communication skills, with experience working directly with users or stakeholders to deliver solutions.
  • A genuine interest in improving the developer experience, with a track record of thinking carefully about what makes engineers productive.
  • The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000 to $275,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.


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