Developer Experience / Productivity Engineer
Laurel
Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Grant Thornton, and Latham & Watkins, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform.
Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful. If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Developer Experience Engineer passionate about leveraging AI and automation to enhance engineering productivity. You’ll continuously explore innovative ways to streamline workflows, reduce friction, and ensure developers spend their time on meaningful, impactful tasks. Your mission is to use technology to maximize efficiency, aligning directly with Laurel’s core mission to sanctify time.
Why Now?
Developer efficiency is a competitive advantage. At Laurel, you’ll directly shape the productivity, engagement, and overall happiness of our engineering teams, enabling faster development, smarter innovation and growth. While this is something all of our engineers think about, having one person as a lead to deduplicate efforts, set standards and evaluate options is important.
Core Duties:
Develop & Automate: Design, build, implement and maintain AI-driven tooling and automation solutions to significantly enhance developer productivity.
Collaborate: Partner closely with engineers and product teams to identify bottlenecks and automate repetitive tasks, maximizing effective use of engineers' time.
Innovate & Educate: Proactively research emerging technologies, particularly AI-driven tools, to introduce innovative solutions that enhance engineering workflows and developer effectiveness.
Measure & Improve: Continuously measure and analyze the impact of automation and tooling on productivity, iterating based on actionable insights.
Document & Communicate: Produce clear, insightful documentation and training resources to facilitate widespread adoption of tools and automated processes.
Teammates:
This role reports to the Infrastructure and Security Engineering Manager and collaborates closely with the broader engineering teams.
Skills and Experience:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience: 4+ years in software engineering, with significant experience focused on developer tooling, AI-driven automation, or platform engineering.
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Technical Skills:
Proficiency in Typescript.
Comfortable with Python and Go.
Demonstrated experience implementing automation and AI solutions.
Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Cursor, MCP, ChatGPT.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and Azure).
Understanding of the current AI landscape and how to work with it.
Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, particularly in integrating complex systems.
Communication: Exceptional communication skills, able to clearly articulate complex solutions and foster team-wide adoption.
Customer Mindset: Deep empathy for developers, consistently focused on understanding their needs and improving their productivity.
Flexibility and Logistics
Location: This role will be hybrid based in our New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA or San Francisco, CA office, 3 days per week; we may consider exceptionally qualified candidates who are remote in the United States and are willing to travel occasionally to our offices.
Compensation: Competitive salary, generous equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage with covered premiums, 401(k), additional benefits including wellness/commuter/FSA stipends. For candidates based in San Francisco or New York, NY the compensation range for this role is $160,000-$212,000 USD. Final compensation amounts will be determined based on several factors including candidate experience, qualifications and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed.
Visa Sponsorship: We will consider Visa sponsorships on a case-by-case basis.
What happens if my kid or I are sick on a workday? Take all the time you need! We’ll cover for you. And send you some soup.
Why join Laurel:
To date, we've secured significant funding from renowned venture capitalists (Google Ventures, IVP, Anthos, Upfront Ventures), as well as notable individuals like Marc Benioff, Gokul Rajaram, Kevin Weil, and Alexis Ohanian
A smart, fun, collaborative, and inclusive team
Great employee benefits, including equity and 401K
Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites, in unique locations, to grow and share time with the team
An opportunity to perform at your best while growing, making a meaningful impact on the company's trajectory, and embodying our core values: understanding your "why," dancing in the rain, being your whole self, and sanctifying time
We encourage diverse perspectives and rigorous thinkers who aren't afraid to challenge the status quo. Laurel is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are not able to support visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.
If you think you'd be a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t perfectly match all the bullet points in the job description. At Laurel, we strive to create an inclusive culture that encourages people from all walks of life to bring their unique, diverse perspectives to work. Every day, we aim to build an environment that empowers us all to do the best work of our careers, and we can't wait to show you what we have to offer!