Developer Experience Engineer

Hiive is a fintech company that operates an institutional-grade platform for facilitating secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies. The Developer Experience Engineer will build internal tooling, workflows, and AI-enabled development practices that improve engineering speed, quality, and reliability. The role will partner with engineering teams to reduce development friction, establish effective workflows, improve documentation and onboarding, and lead practical AI adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Building internal tools, templates, scripts, and workflows that reduce friction across local development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability, and code review
• Leading practical AI adoption across Engineering by evaluating tools, designing usage patterns, creating examples, and helping teams apply AI safely in real delivery work
• Partnering with product engineers to discover bottlenecks, prioritize the highest-impact improvements, and measure whether tooling changes improve speed, quality, or developer satisfaction
• Creating and maintain golden paths for common engineering workflows, including new services, environment setup, recurring development tasks, and release processes
• Improving documentation, onboarding, and self-service support so engineers can solve common workflow problems without interrupting other teams
• Designing automation that removes repetitive work, reduces manual handoffs, and makes engineering systems easier to operate
• Contributing production-quality code and collaborate closely with platform, product engineering, security, and data teams

Requirements:

• Experience building internal developer tools, platform tooling, engineering productivity systems, CI/CD workflows, or comparable software infrastructure
• Strong software engineering ability in at least one modern programming language, with enough range to work across scripts, services, APIs, and developer-facing integrations
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, workflow automation, or applying AI to software delivery
• Ability to turn ambiguous developer pain points into clear problems, lightweight experiments, and shipped tooling improvements
• Experience with modern development workflows, including Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations
• Clear written communication and documentation habits, especially for internal technical audiences
• Experience with developer portals, service templates, internal platforms, Backstage, or similar self-service tooling
• Experience in a high-growth fintech, marketplace, or regulated technology environment
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, containers, cloud platforms, or deployment automation
• Experience creating internal enablement programs, engineering playbooks, or AI adoption guidelines