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Thumbtack

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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2 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $233k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and roll out agentic developer workflows using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, skills, plugins, and MCP servers.
  • Design and build self-service workflows in the Backstage developer portal, developer CLI, IDE integrations, and an agent development framework.
  • Own and evolve the Cloud Development Environment platform for human developers and AI agents.
  • Improve build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability used across the engineering organization.
  • Prototype, evaluate, configure, and scale new AI developer tools across the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of industry software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience building developer infrastructure, Developer Experience, or platform tools used by other engineers, including CDEs, internal CLIs, MCP servers, or build and CI systems at 100+ engineer scale.
  • Strong systems thinking across build pipelines, CI/CD, development environments, and test infrastructure.
  • A UX mindset focused on personas, journeys, and end-to-end workflows for human and AI users.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, with informed opinions about their limitations and adoption at scale.
  • Fluency in Go and Python for CLIs, services, MCP servers, and Slackbots, plus TypeScript and React for web UIs.
  • Experience delivering cross-team projects with measurable impact on engineering productivity.