Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience - Remote

ClassDojo; United States; Remote; USD 146,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

ClassDojo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience, to build internal platforms, AI-powered developer tools, and streamlined workflows that empower engineers across the company. As an early member of the Developer Experience Engineering team, you will shape technical direction, raise engineering standards, and create reusable tools and self-service capabilities.

If you thrive in ambiguity, love solving organization-wide problems, and want to accelerate education technology,

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years building production software in modern engineering organizations.
• Able to solve organization-wide engineering problems, not just product-specific challenges.
• Think like a product engineer when building internal platforms.
• Demonstrate strong technical judgment and know when to build, simplify, automate, or adopt existing solutions.
• Thrive in ambiguity and help build a new Platform Engineering team.
• Build trust through partnership and influence, not hierarchy.
• Care deeply about engineering craftsmanship, maintainability, and long-term platform health.
• Approach AI as a practical tool for improving engineering effectiveness, not an end in itself.
• Measure success by the impact your work has on other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build products for engineers: design and build internal platforms, tooling, and developer workflows that improve the experience of developing, testing, reviewing, deploying, and operating software.
• Multiply engineering productivity: identify opportunities where platform investments create outsized impact and reduce developer friction while improving velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Help shape AI-native software development: build practical AI-powered workflows that help engineers write, review, test, and ship software more effectively; evaluate emerging technologies and establish patterns.
• Partner deeply across engineering: work with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and leaders to understand pain points and build platform capabilities that solve real problems.
• Create trusted paved paths: build reusable tools, automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities that become the preferred way engineers work.
• Measure impact: use engineering metrics and adoption data to continuously improve the developer experience.
• Help build Developer Experience Engineering: contribute to technical direction, engineering standards, and long-term evolution of the team.

Skills

Software engineering

Product thinking

AI tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Tools

CI/CD

Internal developer platforms

Job description

ClassDojo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience, to build internal platforms, AI-powered developer tools, and streamlined workflows that empower engineers across the company. As an early member of the Developer Experience Engineering team, you will shape technical direction, raise engineering standards, and create reusable tools and self-service capabilities.

If you thrive in ambiguity, love solving organization-wide problems, and want to accelerate education technology,