Senior Developer Experience Engineer

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.

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.

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