Developer Experience Engineer, WorkOS
$175-250k
+ Equity Grants
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
Be an early applicant
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-250k
+ Equity Grants
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a toolkit to help startups meet the requirements for bringing on enterprise clients.
Role
Who you are
- Successful candidates will love programming languages and stay up-to-date on their developments and best practices
- They’ll also enjoy working on OSS projects and bringing joy to developers through their work
- 5+ years of industry software development experience
- Has built, shipped and maintained SDKs and/or OSS projects
- Experience in community management and issue triage
- Experience owning projects and driving work based on customer impact
- Expert-level skill in three or more of our seven supported languages (Node/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, PHP, .NET)
- Experience in popular JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Next.js, Remix, Vue, Svelte, Angular)
- Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
- Experience building and shipping web applications end-to-end
- Excellent prioritization and organization skills
- Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products
- A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills
- Bonus: Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or a related industry
What the job involves
- As a developer-first company, WorkOS is committed to creating exceptional experiences for engineers
- We're seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to elevate our DX and help make it the best in the industry
- We build and maintain SDKs in seven different languages, plus framework specific libraries
- Regardless of which language or framework customers use, though, we want to make developing with WorkOS a joy
- This role includes building and maintaining SDKs, open-source libraries, tooling, guides, and documentation
- Own and expand our SDKs and other OSS projects like AuthKit and our Next.js library
- Create and maintain example apps for our users in a variety of language and framework combinations like Next.js and PHP
- Build best-in-class developer tools to delight our users, like the WorkOS CLI
- Speak with customers regularly to get feedback on the developer experience
- Provide expert insight on developer experience decision making across the company
- Structure work around customer impact first and help move the company forward
- Help shape the DX roadmap to continue improve the experience and bring developer joy
- Help recruit and assess future engineering team members
- Help represent the team publicly through blog posts, public docs and developer tooling
Our take
The inspiration for WorkOS came from the founder’s previous email startup, Nylas, and the difficulties he faced in crossing what he calls “the enterprise chasm.” The challenge of serving enterprise clients, and meeting their stringent security and admin requirements, is one that many B2B SaaS startups face as they start to scale.
WorkOS steps in at this critical stage, providing a single API driven platform which enables its customers to easily integrate with the major vendors that provide enterprise security and admin solutions. For example, rather than building individual integrations with each of the single sign-on (SSO) providers, a customer would only need to integrate with WorkOS in order to support these solutions.
Enterprise features that WorkOS is providing building blocks for include Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Trail, and more. WorkOS is helping a wide range of SaaS providers break into enterprise channels and was bolstered by substantial Series B funding in 2022. In that same year, WorkOS acquired its first company, UI framework builder Modulz, a deal that's broadening the scope of API products WorkOS can offer.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- WorkOS pays 90% of premiums for employees and dependents to help keep your family healthy
- WorkOS provides a 3% match of your 401k contributions to help you save for retirement
- Relax and recharge with 20 days of paid yearly vacation. We also offer 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents
- Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations, or whatever keeps you active
- Monthly stipend for a massage, meditation class, therapy, or activities that enhance your mental well-being
- Outfit your working space with a stipend for equipment that will keep you comfortable and productive
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Grinich
(Founder & CEO)Earned a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. Previously worked in the Engineering team at Dropbox, in the Design team at Nest and was the Founder & CEO of Nylas for 4 years.
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