Lead AI Developer Tooling Engineer

Appian Corporation

2d•$150,000 - $300,000•Remote

About The Position

Appian is seeking a Lead AI Developer Tooling Engineer to build the developer tools that power AI automation for large enterprises. This role is part of the Appian Engineering team, which focuses on the platform's foundational layers and AI capabilities. The team operates in a collaborative, fast-paced environment emphasizing technical precision, continuous learning, and high code quality. The engineer will solve real-world problems that shape how Appian delivers its AI-Powered Process Automation platform globally. As a technical linchpin, the Lead AI Developer Tooling Engineer will design and deliver sophisticated developer experiences, shape engineering practices, and deepen expertise in Enterprise-Grade Orchestration, utilizing cutting-edge AI tooling.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related technical/analytical discipline.
7+ years of relevant software development experience with a BS (or 5+ years of experience paired with a Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field).
Experience building IDE, CLI, code-analysis, CI/CD, or developer-experience tools.
Working knowledge of local/remote execution, telemetry, privacy, and enterprise deployment constraints.
Strong language-server, parser, build-system, source-control, and diagnostics experience.
Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants and a strong ability to evaluate, coach others on, and selectively apply AI-generated code in a production engineering context.
Proven experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining a high-volume, mission-critical production service environment.
Exceptional ability to communicate highly technical architectures verbally, visually, and in writing to diverse engineering audiences.

Nice To Haves

Strong experience developing and operating services on public cloud infrastructure.
Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and optimize developer-facing tools and services while maintaining a strong personal technical presence on the team.
Design and build IDE integrations, CLIs, code-analysis, and CI/CD tooling that Appian's engineers rely on every day, treating developer experience as a first-class product.
Use AI coding tools fluently as a force multiplier: generating, reviewing, and critically evaluating AI-assisted code to ship faster without compromising quality or correctness.
Expose AI capabilities to developers through workflows that are fast, understandable, and debuggable — earning trust by making AI assistance transparent and easy to control.
Manage the availability, latency, and efficiency of developer tooling by engineering deep reliability into it and performing advanced system tuning.
Radiate development best practices across the department, perform meticulous code reviews on design and implementation, and build automation frameworks to prevent problem recurrence.
Actively coach, mentor, and guide junior engineers on software craftsmanship, providing the structural support necessary to accelerate their technical proficiency.
Share expert domain knowledge regularly across the department, building a reputation as a vital resource and publishing high-quality content to Engineering’s permanent documentation site.