1 day ago
Base Salary
$135k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a developer workflow, tool, or user problem through discovery, definition, design, build, rollout, adoption, and potential retirement.
- Conduct product discovery through user interviews, workflow observation, support-ticket analysis, usage data, and CI logs.
- Define product problems, scope, release sequencing, outcomes, and adoption measurements.
- Design flows, states, empty states, and error cases using Figma or code prototypes.
- Build developer-facing interfaces, backend services, APIs, CLIs, terminal UIs, GitHub Apps and Actions, Harness pipeline templates, and integrations.
- Apply AI through agent workflows, context and tool design, MCP servers, evaluations, human review points, cost and latency budgets, and guardrails.
- Maintain consumer-grade standards for latency, responsiveness, accessibility, error messages, documentation, and internal software quality.
- Earn adoption through design partners, pilots, launch communications, office hours, and clear migration paths.
- Create reusable technical building blocks and communicate decisions through specifications, documentation, changelogs, and launch notes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships, with a record of shipping software people chose to use.
- Experience leading a complex project from unclear requirements through launch while coordinating with other teams and making scope and implementation tradeoffs.
- Strong expertise in at least one relevant area such as TypeScript and React or a backend language such as Go, Python, Java, or Rust, with the ability to work across adjacent layers.
- Experience building developer-facing software such as CLIs, internal platforms, SDKs, CI/CD tooling, or IDE integrations.
- Ability to conduct user discovery, reason about interaction and failure states, and communicate clearly in specs, documentation, changelogs, and launch notes.
- Ability to assess where LLM-based capabilities can help, including failure modes and appropriate human review.
- Bonus experience with Harness, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or similar CI/CD systems and large-scale release orchestration.
- Bonus experience automating Jira, Confluence, GitHub, or Figma APIs or building applications inside those products.
- Bonus experience with agent frameworks, MCP servers, retrieval, evaluation systems, DORA, SPACE, DevEx measurement, terminal UI frameworks, design systems, or Backstage.
Benefits
- Location-flexible work from a nearest office, home, or a hybrid arrangement, subject to location restrictions and role requirements.
- Base salary range of $135,000-$160,000 with eligibility for bonus, equity, health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Collaborative, inclusive workplace with opportunities to shape tools used by Ancestry’s engineering, product, and design teams.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants.
Categories
Product Engineering
About Ancestry
Ancestry builds online family‑history research tools and consumer DNA testing for individuals, monetized through subscriptions, records access, and AncestryDNA kits. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Draper, Utah, it is privately held by Blackstone. Its platform hosts more than 65 billion historical records, supports over 3 million subscribers, and has a DNA network exceeding 27 million people.