Developer Experience Lead
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Developer Experience Lead (Engineering Background Required) – 1099 Contract📍 Hybrid – New York City (3–4 days onsite) 📅 6-month contract (high likelihood of extension) 🚫 No visa sponsorship available We’re partnered with a fast-growing, tech-driven financial platform building out a developer-first ecosystem powering modern investing experiences. They’re looking for a Developer Experience Lead with a strong engineering foundation — someone who has built systems themselves and can now shape how other developers build on top of them. This is not a pure DevRel or documentation role, you’ll be driving hands-on DevEx strategy across APIs, tooling, and platform experience.
What you’ll be doing:
- Own and evolve the developer platform & experience end-to-end
- Design and improve how developers interact with external-facing APIs and tools
- Partner with engineering + product to ship scalable, intuitive solutions
- Identify developer pain points and translate them into technical improvements
- Drive adoption through better API design, tooling, and documentation
- Work across backend + frontend product requirements
- What they’re looking for 5+ years software engineering experience (non-negotiable)
- Background as a Backend, Platform, or Full-Stack Engineer before moving into DevExProven experience working on external-facing APIs / developer platforms
- Strong understanding of API design, versioning, and integrations
- Hands-on experience with tools like Postman, API gateways, or similar
- Ability to operate across engineering and product in fast-paced environments
- Strong communication skills — able to simplify complex technical concepts
Nice to have:
Experience in fintech / trading / investing platforms Exposure to developer portals, SDKs, or API ecosystemsADVERT DISCLAIMERResearch indicates that men will apply to a role when they only meet 50-60% of the descriptions, however, when looking at women and other minority groups, they can look for up to a 99% match in order to apply to a role. If you feel you are a fit for our role, please still apply, don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box. We’d still love to hear from you. We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles & support accessibility needs