Senior Developer Experience Engineer

About the company

Our client is a technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Improve the shared engineering systems, build workflows and in-house utilities that a large group of engineers depends on daily. Serve as a senior technical leader who mentors colleagues, sets team standards, and helps others move faster and ship with confidence.

What you'll do

- Refine how code travels from a developer's machine to production, streamlining the setup engineers use every day across the whole company.

- Work alongside colleagues from several adjacent groups to pinpoint slowdowns and deliver the most valuable fixes.

- Assess AI-assisted coding tools, choose which to adopt, add safeguards and measure their real effect on productivity.

- Set developer experience standards, documentation and operational runbooks that keep pace with company growth.

- Lead as a senior technical voice, mentoring future hires and proposing improvements rather than only following a set plan.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Senior-level engineering experience, comfortable acting as a tech lead and mentor.

- Multi-year experience at a high-growth startup during periods of rapid scaling.

- Track record creating shared systems and utilities that internal engineers depend on.

- Strong security awareness, particularly around build pipelines and backend systems.

- Fluency in a modern backend programming language.

- Hands-on background engineering server-side foundations that keep working as load and codebase size grow.

- Experience collaborating across several engineering teams.

Bonus points

- Experience using Protocol Buffers.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 225,000 to 275,000 per year

- Equity

- Retirement plan with employer match

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Paid parental leave

- Flexible time off

- Relocation support

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States, or Washington, DC, United States

- Hybrid, with 3 days in office per week

- Full-time