Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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Company: Fern

Location: New York, NY 10025

Description:

Overview

This role is ideal for ambitious engineers with entrepreneurial goals. Many of us are former or future founders, and this is an opportunity to scale a company from $1M to $10M ARR while partnering with fast-growing tech companies shaping the future of software. We value in-person collaboration and work out of our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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What you'll do
  • Your mission is to make your teammates outrageously productive.
  • Eliminate friction in the dev workflow - accelerate builds, improve deploy reliability, and make testing a joy.
  • Own and evolve our CI/CD systems, including GitHub Actions pipelines across SDK and Docs repos. Improve speed, coverage, and developer experience of our SDK generation test suite.
  • Build infrastructure-as-code systems to ensure our environments are repeatable, observable, and auditable.
  • Design and implement monitoring, observability, and alerting across our stack.


What you'll bring
  • 3+ years of professional software development
  • Significant experience with TypeScript


What we offer
  • An opportunity to build a network with high-growth software companies
  • First-hand experience building an early-stage startup
  • A salary of $170,000 to $210,000 and equity
  • Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office
  • Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the office
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited vacation


Our tech stack
  • GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
  • Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)
  • Claude + Bedrock (LLM)
  • Fern (API)
  • Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)
  • Algolia + turbopuffer (Search)
  • Postgres DB + Prisma ORM (Database)
  • AWS (Cloud)


About the interview
  • Phone Screen with a founder
  • Technical Interview: Coding
  • Technical Interview: Decomp (System Design)
  • Work Trial (in office)
  • Offer!
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