Software Engineer - Productivity

Summary

Join WorkOS, a developer platform building tools and services for enterprise-ready apps, as an experienced engineer to optimize code production and collaboration. You will build trust across the engineering team, identify pain points, and improve software development. You will act as a bridge between infrastructure, product, and leadership to ensure tools and systems mature alongside the product. The role involves conducting internal research, synthesizing needs into a cohesive strategy, interfacing with leadership and vendors, improving internal tooling, and crafting a long-term strategy. You will be a visible voice advocating for engineers and optimizing codebase patterns and toolchains. WorkOS offers competitive pay, substantial equity grants, healthcare, 401k matching, wellness allowances, PTO, paid holidays, unlimited sick leave, and remote work flexibility.

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience rolling out team-wide process/tooling changes
• Ability to identify the tradeoffs & needs of companies as they scale; ideally you’ve seen how both start-ups & mature companies operate
• Understanding of developer tool chains, including IDEs, text editors, compilers, debuggers and shells
• Experience writing documentation, including technical guides, coding standards and tutorials
• 8+ years experiences in software development

Responsibilities

• Conducting internal research to understand each of our engineers and how they work
• Building cross-functional trust by listening to and understanding each of your teammates
• Synthesizing the variety of needs and asks into a cohesive strategy that leadership will understand and support
• Interfacing with leadership & vendors to procure the right tools and environments to suit your teammates
• Improving internal tooling across the company
• Crafting a long-term strategy that makes appropriate tradeoffs with short-term needs and asks
• Being a credible and visible voice at the company to make sure people know they’re being heard and understood
• Optimizing codebase patterns, building toolchains, CI

Preferred Qualifications

Our stack is TypeScript, React, and Postgres (bonus points if you are familiar with these, but it's not required)

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Substantial equity grants
• Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family
• 401k matching
• Wellness and fitness monthly allowances
• PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave
• Autonomy and flexibility with remote work