Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience & Ai Enablement

Grow Therapy•San Francisco, CA

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

Grow Therapy's Developer Experience team exists to make our ~120 engineers (and growing) measurably faster and happier. We treat developer tools as a product: our customers are engineers, and everything we ship, from CI/CD and test infrastructure to build tooling and AI-native development workflows, is judged by whether it makes their day better. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for this work across the engineering organization. The team is small, fully senior, and largely greenfield: the goals are set at the org level and tracked by our most senior technology leaders, but the project list is yours to discover. Today, improvements to how teams build, test, and review code live in pockets. The staff engineer on this team turns pockets into paved roads: identifying the bottlenecks that cost every engineer time, designing the standard, and driving adoption across teams that do not report to you. This is a hands-on role on an AI-forward team. We are actively building agentic developer workflows and expect AI to be the primary lever in how we climb from AI-assisted to AI-native development.

Requirements

You have deep developer experience, developer productivity, or platform engineering experience where internal engineers were your customer, or you built developer tools as the product at a developer-tools company
You have owned problems that only exist at scale: monorepo tooling, build systems (Bazel or similar), CI performance for large test suites, or test framework migrations, and you can speak to the before-and-after outcomes
You think about developer tools with a product mindset, defining what success looks like up front and measuring adoption and developer satisfaction to know you've delivered it.
You think about developer tools with a product mindset, measuring adoption and developer satisfaction rather than shipping and hoping
You are genuinely excited about AI development tooling and have opinions grounded in things you have built

Nice To Haves

Python ecosystem depth, GitHub Actions at scale, or prior experience driving standards across a 100+ engineer organization
you've built developer-facing AI tooling - coding agents, AI code review, LLM developer workflows, MCP - and have a grounded view of where it does and doesn't help.

Responsibilities

Own the highest-leverage developer-experience problems across engineering end to end, deciding which bottleneck is worth solving, designing the approach, and driving org-wide adoption.
Set and evolve engineering-wide standards for how teams build, test, and ship, and do the alignment work to make them stick as the org grows.
Making our large codebase fast to work in: build systems and monorepo tooling, CI/CD pipeline performance, test reliability and framework strategy
Set the golden paths for how engineers work with AI, find the highest-leverage places to push it deeper into the development loop, and keep Grow at the front of a fast-moving space.
Drive the technical strategy for breaking up the monolith, from the incremental migration path to the test-isolation and build tooling that makes it possible at scale.
Embedding with product teams to understand their workflows firsthand, and treating their feedback as product input
Raising the bar for the engineers around you through design review, mentorship, and the quality of your own shipped work

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
No cost access to therapy through the Grow platform (available to US employees)
Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities to help you invest in your future.
Flexible time off, company paid holidays (which vary by country), and a full company wide Winter Break to rest and recharge
Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave to support you and your growing family and a new child stipend.
Dedicated weekly flexible time for self care, whether that's therapy, exercise, journaling, time with family, or simply taking a break.
Annual stipend to support your personal wellbeing and professional growth, from fitness and education to books and learning resources.
Pre tax commuter benefits to support teammates working from one of our hub locations.
Support for your home workspace plus meal benefits, with offerings tailored to both remote and hub based employees.
A variety of wellbeing benefits, including wellness memberships, virtual care, pet insurance discounts (where available), and global travel assistance.