Software Developer, Developer Productivity

Thurn Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance Day 1

401(k) with employer match

HSA contributions

Catered meals daily

Monthly tech stipend

Gym membership

Job summary

Thurn Partners is hiring for a hands-on software engineering role on the Software Development team. You will own developer tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows that accelerate delivery across a large codebase.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, AI-driven coding workflows, and auto-remediation to minimize build failures, while aligning with leadership on productivity metrics and engineering goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience as an infrastructure-focused software engineer.
• Deep, production-level Python expertise across the language and its ecosystem.
• Experience building or maintaining developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools or agents in a real engineering workflow, including writing skills or configurations for them.
• Experience working with C++ and Java.
• Low ego—able to work both collaboratively and autonomously.
• Strong communicator, comfortable working directly with engineering teams to understand and prioritise pain points.

Responsibilities

• Build and own CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, and test acceleration systems across a large, fast-moving codebase.
• Implement internal AI coding workflows that let engineers delegate well-scoped work to coding agents.
• Build auto-remediation flows that detect and fix common build failures without human intervention.
• Evaluate and adopt new AI-powered developer tools, writing shared configurations and skills for agents like Claude Code and Codex.
• Automate local development environment setup and reduce drift between local, CI, and production environments.
• Build and maintain standard CLI tools, starter service templates, and IDE integrations used across engineering.
• Work directly with engineering teams to understand where friction exists and build platform-level solutions that remove it.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define and track developer productivity metrics.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Infra engineering

AI tools

C++

Java

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Build tooling

IDE integrations

Bazel

AI code agents tooling

Job description

One of the world's most technically rigorous quantitative trading firms is hiring for a newly created role on their Software Development team. This is developer productivity engineering at the sharpest end of the industry - where the tools and pipelines you build sit directly beneath a firm whose edge depends on engineers shipping reliable software fast.

The Role

This is a hands-on software engineering position for someone who builds and owns the developer tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows that let engineers across the firm ship confidently. You'd be joining a new team with a clear mandate: remove friction, accelerate delivery, and bring AI-assisted engineering into the day-to-day workflow.

• Build and own CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, and test acceleration systems across a large, fast-moving codebase
• Implement internal AI coding workflows that let engineers delegate well-scoped work to coding agents
• Build auto-remediation flows that detect and fix common build failures without human intervention
• Evaluate and adopt new AI-powered developer tools, writing shared configurations and skills for agents like Claude Code and Codex
• Automate local development environment setup and reduce drift between local, CI, and production environments
• Build and maintain standard CLI tools, starter service templates, and IDE integrations used across engineering
• Work directly with engineering teams to understand where friction exists and build platform-level solutions that remove it
• Partner with engineering leadership to define and track developer productivity metrics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience as an infrastructure-focused software engineer
• Deep, production-level Python expertise across the language and its ecosystem
• Experience building or maintaining developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure at scale
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools or agents in a real engineering workflow, including writing skills or configurations for them
• Experience working with C++ and Java
• Low ego - able to work both collaboratively and autonomously
• Strong communicator, comfortable working directly with engineering teams to understand and prioritise pain points

Preferred Skills (not required)

• Experience with build systems such as Bazel or similar at scale
• Familiarity with distributed build caching, merge queues, or automated release tooling
• Experience with agentic AI frameworks beyond standard tooling
• Prior experience in financial services or a latency-sensitive production environment
• Background at a large, high-calibre technology company is a strong fit
• Compensation is among the most competitive in the industry for this type of role
• Medical, dental and vision insurance effective Day 1
• 401(k) with employer match
• HSA with company-funded contributions
• Catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily
• Monthly tech stipend
• Complimentary gym membership

Pre-Application:

• Please do not apply if you are looking for a contract or remote work
• You must be eligible to live and work in the US, without requiring sponsorship
• Please ensure you meet the required experience section prior to applying
• Allow 1-5 working days for a response to any job enquiry

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