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