Senior Developer Experience Engineer

The role

You will own the developer and agent experience by building software and improving the environment for engineers and coding agents. You will set the roadmap for codebase navigation, internal tools, and cloud coding workflows.

What you will do

• Set the roadmap for how engineers and coding agents navigate the codebase and use internal tools
• Build the developer-facing layer around existing compute foundations
• Improve agent output by changing repository structure, interfaces, and documentation
• Design how agents receive, discover, persist, and discard context
• Raise the quality of shared skills and instructions through contribution standards
• Improve CI speed, reliability, local setup, testing, debugging, and deploy workflows
• Measure effectiveness using developer research and DORA or SPACE measures
• Drive adoption by teaching effective practices and turning experiments into defaults
• Partner with infrastructure and security engineers on sandboxing and controls

Required qualifications

• Exceptional with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor
• Experience building developer tooling or a platform that engineers beyond your immediate team relied on
• Experience making meaningful improvements to CI, testing, or repository workflows in a large-codebase
• Product judgment for internal systems
• Strong software engineering experience building and operating substantial production software
• Ability to compare prompts, context, tools, models, and workflows against representative tasks
• Ability to set standards and change defaults across teams
• Comfort moving between platform code, repository conventions, evaluation data, developer interviews, and documentation

Nice to have

• Experience building cloud or remote development environments, coding-agent control planes, or secure execution sandboxes
• Experience building or operating an agentic code review system
• Experience designing agent tools, skills, context systems, memory, orchestration, or model-routing infrastructure
• Experience using DORA, SPACE, or similar frameworks
• Experience in financial services or another security- and compliance-sensitive environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Generous relocation package to NYC office
• Unlimited PTO + paid company holidays
• Access to holistic medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company 401(k) including Mega backdoor Roth options
• Commuter, and HSA/FSA plans
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office, & dinner if you stay late
• Access to virtual mental health care (Spring Health) and health concierge (Rightway)
• Access to counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues (Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP)

About the company

Savvy is a registered investment advisor that provides a proprietary tech platform and business-in-a-box for financial advisors. The company is a Series C firm that uses AI-native tools to reinvent wealth management.