Developer Experience Engineer III
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Summary
Open Lending is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer III to join their new Platform Team in Austin, TX. The role focuses on enhancing developer productivity and experience through strategic initiatives and AI tooling.
About the Role
As a Developer Experience Engineer III, you will be a founding contributor responsible for defining the Developer Experience Roadmap, designing and maintaining internal developer platforms, integrating AI-powered tools, and establishing best practices for development workflows. You will work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to streamline the development lifecycle and improve developer productivity metrics.
About You
Required:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in platform, developer experience, or DevOps-related roles.
- Proven track record of delivering developer productivity and platform engineering initiatives at scale.
- Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Expertise in AI-powered development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, OpenAI API integrations, AI-assisted testing frameworks).
- Solid understanding of software delivery metrics (DORA, SPACE framework) and how to improve them.
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Java, Go, Python, or similar) and modern infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Experience setting up new platform or DX functions from scratch and influencing technical direction.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred:
- Experience in multi-team engineering organizations where developer enablement was a core focus.
- Familiarity with Team Topologies and developer cognitive load reduction strategies.
- Prior work integrating observability, monitoring, and logging into developer-facing systems.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with secure software supply chain practices (SBOMs, artifact signing, etc.).
Benefits
- Opportunity to build a developer experience function from the ground up.
- High impact—your work directly accelerates the velocity of our entire engineering organization.
- Collaborative, forward-thinking culture that values automation, continuous improvement, and AI innovation.
- Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a strong commitment to work-life balance.
Open Lending
Open Lending specializes in loan analytics, risk-based pricing, risk modeling and automated decision technology for automotive lenders throughout the United States. Open Lending’s flagship product, Lenders Protection™, is a unique auto lending enablement platform. It utilizes proprietary data and advanced decisioning analytics to provide lenders with a powerful way to increase near and non-prime auto loan volumes, without adding significant risk to their auto loan portfolio.
Austin, TX