Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

AIRWALLEX (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company focused on developer experience is seeking an experienced professional with over 5 years in modern engineering practices. The role emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering teams to enhance developer experience, ensuring APIs meet high standards, and creating a developer portal with AI features. Strong cloud experience with GCP or AWS along with advanced programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Python, or Typescript is essential. Join us to foster a satisfying developer community and innovative technology solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in modern engineering practices.
• Evidence of working on high-volume distributed systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and support teams to refine developer experience.
• Ensure APIs meet high standards.
• Build a world-class developer portal and docs.

Skills

Continuous integration/delivery

Quality engineering

Java

Kotlin

Python

Typescript

Cloud experience (GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor degree in computer science or engineering related majors

Job description

About the team

The Developer Experience (DevX) team oversees our customer’s developer journey from discovery to building at scale. We aim to provide an onboarding experience so intuitive and well-organized that developers can discover product details, learn implementation specifics, and develop independently. During build and scale, our customers have developer affordances that are comprehensive, ergonomic and delightful.

We achieve this by providing structured channels to collect feedback and use data analytics informing us on how we can provide the best experience.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product, engineering, customer‑success, and technical support teams to refine & streamline the developer experience for our customers.
• Ensure our APIs meet the highest standards and conventions.
• Create next‑in‑class user and data analytics pipeline.
• Build world‑class developer portal and docs with AI as a core feature
• Contribute to open source and fostering a developer community
• Incorporate the latest technologies and up‑leveling our tech stack.
• Develop external tools and services that get released to our customers.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in modern engineering practices focused on continuous integration/delivery and quality engineering.
• Bachelor degree or above in computer science or engineering related majors.
• A passion for building delightful developer‑facing products.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more programming languages, including but not limited to Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Evidence of working on high‑volume distributed systems.
• Strong cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, etc.) with Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred qualifications:

• Released and maintained well‑known APIs or have API design experience.
• Experience within the financial domain.
• Led major migrations in software that involved breaking changes.
• Worked in both early‑stage startups (<20) and 1000+ sized companies.
• Deep proven technical knowledge of either front‑end and/or backend systems.
• Worked in developer experience or other customer‑facing engineering roles.