2 years ago
Bedford, MA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the developer experience roadmap and target architecture.
- Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve developer experience platforms, workflows, automations, integrations, and self-service capabilities.
- Establish development workflows, reference implementations, engineering controls, adoption guidance, and governance aligned with quality, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
- Define developer experience metrics and feedback mechanisms to identify friction and measure improvements.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture, design, code, test, and implementation reviews.
- Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives from definition through delivery, including technical direction, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
- Evaluate and roll out technologies and methods that improve developer productivity and engineering effectiveness.
- Mentor engineers and promote self-service, continuous improvement, experimentation, and shared learning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field plus at least 10 years of related software engineering experience, or a master’s degree plus at least 8 years of related experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience leading complex software engineering work and designing, implementing, testing, releasing, and maintaining shared developer workflows, tools, platforms, or integrations.
- Experience with developer experience platforms, integrations, automations, KPIs, metrics, technical documentation, and production support.
- Expert software engineering judgment and technical leadership with the ability to own high-complexity implementations under minimal supervision.
- Hands-on proficiency with maintainable software, automation, tools, integrations, programming and scripting languages, APIs, testing practices, and software design principles.
- Ability to administer and integrate tools for configuration management, requirements management, defect management, code quality, testing, and release management.
- Hands-on capability with cloud operations, AWS, RESTful APIs, third-party service integrations, service monitoring, operational telemetry, networks, and public key infrastructure.
- Ability to evaluate and operationalize AI frameworks, AI-assisted development tools, AI-native engineering systems, multi-agent orchestration, and agentic workflows.
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps, vulnerability scanning, automated software bill of materials generation, static code analysis, test automation, and software delivery in SAFe or Agile environments.
- Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, or FDA guidance is highly desirable.
- Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, mentoring, influencing, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Experience with AI-assisted development capabilities and regulated or quality-controlled software delivery environments is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Travel is less than 5% of the time.
- Werfen is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workplace.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities.
About Werfen
Werfen builds in vitro diagnostic instruments, assays, and reagents for hemostasis, acute care, transfusion, autoimmunity, and transplant testing, sold to hospitals and clinical laboratories worldwide. It also runs an OEM business that develops customized assays and biomaterials, plus services and consumables that accompany its analyzers. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), the privately held company operates directly in about 30 countries and distributes in 100+ territories.