The D. E. Shaw group seeks talented software developers to join our Developer Experience team. This team is responsible for empowering software developers across the firm by building and maintaining the tools, platforms, and infrastructure that define how software gets written, reviewed, and shipped. The position offers a chance to work at the intersection of productivity engineering and platform development—directly shaping the day-to-day development experience across the firm.

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.

Software Developer: Developer Experience