Software Developer: Developer Experience
The D. E. Shaw Group
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Apr 29, 2026
What you’ll do day-to-day
You’ll join a collaborative and highly technical team to drive forward a best-in-class developer environment where you will:
- Engage directly with users to understand needs, address issues, and promote adoption of new tools and processes.
- Evaluate, integrate, and champion AI-powered developer tools, helping teams adopt these capabilities effectively and responsibly.
- Build and maintain integrations and enhancements across IDEs to improve developer productivity, code navigation, and in-editor tooling.
- Own and evolve our build tooling infrastructure, improving build speed, reliability, and reproducibility at scale across diverse codebases.
- Contribute to Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) improvements by streamlining CI/CD pipelines, testing processes, and deployment workflows across teams.
- Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the firm to identify friction points, gather requirements, and deliver impactful solutions.