Staff DevEx Engineer - Internal Tools & AI

Ancestry; Lehi (UT); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ancestry, a global leader in family history, is seeking a product-focused software engineer to own a portion of the developer experience, from discovery through adoption. You will operate as the product manager, designer, and engineer for your area, engaging with users and shaping the solution end-to-end.

You will work across engineering, design, and product teams to deliver internal tools built with TypeScript/React, CLIs, backend services, and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.

Responsibilities

• Own a specific developer workflow through discovery, definition, design, build, rollout, and adoption.
• Run your own product discovery by interviewing engineers, product managers, and designers, reviewing tickets and usage data.
• Turn what you learn into a plan and sequence the smallest useful releases.
• Design the experience before writing production code, including flows, states, and error cases.
• Build with TypeScript and React interfaces, backend services, CLIs, GitHub Apps and Actions, Harness templates, and integrations.
• Use AI where it earns its place in workflows you own, with guardrails and evaluations.
• Hold a consumer-grade quality bar on internal software with clear messaging and documentation.

Skills

Software engineering

Tools

Harness

GitHub Actions

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Job description

Ancestry, a global leader in family history, is seeking a product-focused software engineer to own a portion of the developer experience, from discovery through adoption. You will operate as the product manager, designer, and engineer for your area, engaging with users and shaping the solution end-to-end.

You will work across engineering, design, and product teams to deliver internal tools built with TypeScript/React, CLIs, backend services, and AI-enabled workflows.