Developer Experience

Summary

Join FloQast as their Head of Developer Experience (DevX) to lead and elevate their internal engineering ecosystem. This hands-on leadership role involves shaping how engineers build, test, ship, and operate software using a modern JavaScript/TypeScript stack. You will own the charter of making the engineering environment world-class, collaborating with engineering leadership and platform teams to remove friction and accelerate delivery. The role requires building and leading a high-impact DevX team, championing modern software delivery practices, and creating a consistent and joyful development workflow. You will also standardize best practices, evaluate and integrate tools, and advocate for developer empathy and continuous improvement. FloQast offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, family forming benefits, life & disability insurance, and unlimited vacation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years focused on DevX, Platform Engineering, or Developer Tooling
• Proven experience building, leading, and mentoring high-performing engineering teams
• Deep understanding of modern frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript) and backend (Node.js) development
• Expertise in modern CI/CD practices, containerization (Docker), and cloud-native development
• Experience designing and implementing developer workflows, internal platforms, or self-service infrastructure
• Strong collaboration skills; able to influence and align diverse engineering teams toward common goals
• A bias for action, empathy for engineers, and a passion for creating frictionless development environments

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Developer Experience strategy across all product engineering teams
• Build and lead a high-impact DevX team focused on tooling, standards, developer productivity, and inner-sourcing
• Champion modern software delivery practices: CI/CD, test automation, telemetry, and feedback loops
• Partner with backend (Node.js) and frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript) teams to create a consistent and joyful development workflow
• Lead efforts to simplify local development, environment provisioning, and onboarding
• Standardize best practices and frameworks for testing, linting, code quality, and documentation
• Evaluate, build, and integrate tools that improve build times, reduce cognitive load, and enable rapid iteration
• Own and optimize developer tooling (CLI tools, scaffolding, code generators, etc.), CI/CD pipelines and developer telemetry
• Be a vocal advocate for developer empathy, continuous improvement, and engineering enablement
• Create programs for knowledge sharing, internal documentation, and tech talks
• Measure and improve developer productivity through feedback, data, and iterative improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fast-scaling SaaS environments
• Familiarity with monorepo tooling (e.g., Nx, Turborepo), GraphQL, or microservices architectures
• Prior experience supporting a multi-product engineering organization

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Family Forming benefits
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Unlimited Vacation