Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for major backend and developer-experience initiatives across Clojure, Go and adjacent systems.
• Turn ambiguous product or platform problems into clear plans, staged decisions and measurable outcomes.
• Design, build and operate distributed services, event pipelines, databases and APIs with strong security and reliability characteristics.
• Lead cross-team delivery, surface risks early and remove technical or organisational blockers without waiting for formal authority.
• Make pragmatic recommendations about when to retain, evolve or replace existing components, including the continued reduction of legacy Datomic dependencies.
• Partner with Product
• Design, Security and other engineering teams to connect technical investment to developer and business outcomes.
• Improve observability, incident readiness, performance and service ownership across the Developer Experience estate.
• Improve engineering leverage through appropriate automation, AI-assisted workflows and controls that preserve human accountability.
• Mentor senior engineers, raise the quality of design and code reviews and create reusable patterns that multiply the team.

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