Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Airwallex - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Francisco, CA

1,001-5,000 employees

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About the position

The Staff Software Engineer in Developer Experience at Airwallex is responsible for enhancing the developer journey from discovery to building at scale. This role focuses on creating an intuitive onboarding experience for developers, ensuring high standards for APIs, and building a world-class developer portal. The position requires collaboration with various teams to refine the developer experience and leverage data analytics for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop next-in-class user and data analytics pipeline.
• Ensure our APIs meet the highest standards and conventions.
• Build world-class developer portal and docs with AI as a core feature.
• Contribute to open source and foster a developer community.
• Incorporate the latest technologies and up-level our tech stack.
• Develop external tools and services that get released to our customers.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, customer-success, and technical support teams to refine & streamline the developer experience for our customers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on API development.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and patterns.
• Experience with backend technologies, preferably Java or Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and quality control processes.
• Evidence of working on high volume distributed systems.
• Strong cloud experience with Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront etc) with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience integrating with observability tooling such as Splunk, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.

Nice-to-haves

• Basic experience with frontend technologies such as React and Angular is preferred but not required.
• Some experience working within a financial domain is highly desirable.