Staff Developer Experience Engineer

BetterCloud; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Staff Engineer to enhance developer productivity and experience. The role involves architecting frameworks, developing productivity tools, and integrating AI into the developer stack. Candidates should have 8+ years in software engineering with strong programming skills. This position offers a competitive salary and equity options among comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Equity options

Generous benefits program

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, preferably in DevEx roles.
• Proven experience in building developer platforms.
• Strong proficiency in major programming languages.
• Interest in AI-driven developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect frameworks and SDKs for streamlined development.
• Lead development of feature flag systems and tooling.
• Build systems for documentation automation.
• Deliver actionable developer insights.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Developer productivity tooling

AI-driven tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Collaboration skills

Tools

Python

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

About AlphaSense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role:

Our Core Developer Experience (Core DX) team is expanding its US time zone footprint, and we are looking for a highly experienced Staff Engineer to help shape the future of developer productivity and engineering experience at AlphaSense.

CoreDX is one of two teams in our broader Developer Experience (DevEx) mission, alongside Cloud DX. Together, these teams share a united vision: building a seamless, scalable developer experience that eliminates friction and accelerates delivery. CoreDX focuses on the inner development loop — feature flags, local development tools, QA automation platform, documentation systems, engineering standards, and automation used by the entire engineering organization at AlphaSense. You will also collaborate closely with Cloud DX, which owns environments, CI/CD, and infrastructure, to deliver a unified developer experience across the full software lifecycle.

An essential part of this mission is introducing an AI-first developer experience: integrating AI across the end-to-end workflow — from test automation and flakiness detection, to automated changelogs and documentation flows, to developer insights and support requests. Rather than layering AI on top, we are embedding it directly into the developer stack so that reliability, speed, and quality continuously improve as a natural part of how engineers work every day. As a Staff Engineer, you will act as a force multiplier— mentoring engineers, influencing strategic direction, and setting the bar for developer experience across the company.

Who You Are:

• 8+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevEx roles, with 3+ years in a Senior+/Tech Lead capacity.
• Strong experience building developer platforms, frameworks, or productivity tooling.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Experience with or strong interest in AI-driven developer tooling (e.g., automated documentation, test generation, developer insights, support systems).
• Exposure to Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) such as Backstage, Port.io, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with feature flag platforms and rollout strategies (e.g., LaunchDarkly, Statsig).
• Experience driving test automation and code coverage at scale, enabling product teams to own quality.
• Solid background in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and developer workflow automation.
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable tools and platforms used across large engineering organizations.
• Excellent collaboration and mentorship skills.

What You’ll Do:

• Build Developer Paved Paths: Architect frameworks, SDKs, and self-service tooling that streamline development, testing, deployment, and documentation workflows.
• Feature Flags & Dev Tooling: Lead the development of feature flagging systems, local dev tools, CLI utilities, scaffolding tools, and inner dev loop automation (linters, pre-commit hooks).
• Knowledge Flow & Standards: Build systems for documentation automation, onboarding portals, and changelog tooling; define and evolve engineering standards, definition of done, and tech radar. Use AI to reduce manual overhead and keep knowledge always up to date.
• Developer Insights: Deliver systems that surface actionable DX insights (e.g., surveys, telemetry, workflow analytics) and explore AI-powered insights to continuously improve the developer journey.
• QA Platform Evolution: Enable and multiply test automation owned directly by software engineers by providing frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Testkube), test reporting (Allure), and performance testing capabilities. Leverage AI to accelerate test creation, reduce flakiness, and improve efficiency across the engineering organization.
• Common Platforms: Contribute to shared libraries, event bridge, and internal frameworks that unify the developer experience across teams.
• Mentor & Multiply: Elevate engineers across teams by sharing expertise, driving adoption of best practices, and influencing architectural decisions.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

Compensation Range
$150,000 — $225,000 USD

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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