[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ClassDojo

Role Description

Every feature ClassDojo ships begins with an engineer. Every minute an engineer spends waiting on builds, troubleshooting local environments, repeating manual workflows, or navigating unnecessary complexity is a minute they aren't building magical experiences for children, teachers, and families. Developer Experience Engineering exists to remove that friction.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience , you'll build the tools, workflows, and AI-powered developer experiences that make every engineer at ClassDojo more effective. This is a unique opportunity to join a newly formed Developer Experience Engineering team and help define what great developer experience looks like at ClassDojo.

• Build products for engineers:
  • Design and build internal platforms, tooling, and developer workflows that improve the experience of developing, testing, reviewing, deploying, and operating software.
• Multiply engineering productivity:
  • Identify opportunities where thoughtful platform investments create outsized impact across the engineering organization.
  • Continuously reduce developer friction while improving engineering velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Help shape AI-native software development:
  • Build practical AI-powered workflows that help engineers write, review, test, and ship software more effectively.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies thoughtfully and help establish patterns that improve outcomes while maintaining security, reliability, and engineering quality.
• Partner deeply across engineering:
  • Work closely with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and technical leaders to understand pain points, prioritize opportunities, and build platform capabilities that solve real problems.
• Create trusted paved paths:
  • Build reusable tools, automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities that become the preferred way engineers work because they're intuitive, reliable, and genuinely useful.
• Measure impact:
  • Use engineering metrics, developer feedback, and adoption data to continuously improve the developer experience.
  • Focus on meaningful outcomes rather than activity metrics.
• Help build Developer Experience Engineering:
  • As an early member of the team, contribute to technical direction, engineering standards, and the long-term evolution of Developer Experience Engineering at ClassDojo.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building production software in modern engineering organizations.
• Enjoy solving organization-wide engineering problems rather than only product-specific challenges.
• Think like a product engineer even when building internal platforms.
• Demonstrate strong technical judgment and know when to build, simplify, automate, or adopt existing solutions.
• Thrive in ambiguity and are excited by the opportunity to help build a new Platform Engineering team.
• Build trust through partnership and influence rather than organizational authority.
• Care deeply about engineering craftsmanship, maintainability, and long-term platform health.
• Approach AI as a practical tool for improving engineering effectiveness rather than an end in itself.
• Measure success through the impact your work has on other engineers.

Nice to Have Experiences

• Developer Experience or Platform Engineering teams.
• Internal developer platforms or engineering productivity initiatives.
• CI/CD, release engineering, developer environments, or software delivery systems.
• AI-assisted software development or developer tooling.
• Engineering productivity measurement frameworks such as DORA or SPACE.
• High-growth engineering organizations where platform investments had organization-wide impact.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
• Consideration for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
• Accommodations for disabilities or special needs.
• Distributed company hiring regardless of location, with significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
• Compensation based on geographic location, experience, and skillset.
• Salary ranges (United States):
  • CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $171,500 - $250,000 (USD)
  • All other states in the US: $146,000 - $215,000 (USD)