Staff Software Development Engineer
Renesas Electronics3 days ago
Cambridge, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and make architecture and design decisions for Altium’s developer platform.
- Lead the Developer Center through public release and help shape its long-term growth.
- Design and evolve public APIs, including versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation strategies.
- Build and improve SDKs, developer tools, developer portals, MCP servers, and platform capabilities.
- Drive technical changes across teams, partners, and Professional Services without direct management authority.
- Support enterprise integrations, identity capabilities, on-prem deployments, and bespoke customer solutions.
- Create user-facing documentation and communicate with colleagues, partners, and customers.
- Review and verify output from AI coding tools and contribute to AI-powered agentic platform capabilities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong C# and .NET experience.
- Staff-level or equivalent technical leadership experience, including setting direction and driving cross-team changes.
- Deep experience designing and evolving APIs used by external developers.
- Experience building developer-facing products such as SDKs, developer tools, platforms, or developer portals.
- Experience with enterprise software, ideally including identity and SSO, integrations, or on-premises deployments.
- Clear communication, documentation, teaching, and knowledge-sharing skills.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools with disciplined testing and review.
- Preferred: GraphQL federation, distributed schema design, domain-driven design, Python, TypeScript, NuGet, npm, PyPI, open-source contributions, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, PLM integrations, software licensing, MCP servers, LLM-based tools, agentic systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, EDA, PCB design tools, or Altium products.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package; further details are provided during the hiring process.
- Regular permanent employment.
- Remote work is not available.
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About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.