Staff Software Engineer

About the role

Grow Therapy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience team. You will lead technical strategy for our 120+ engineer organization, focusing on building internal tools and AI-native workflows that improve developer productivity.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Identify and solve high-impact bottlenecks across the engineering organization.
• Define and implement standards for building, testing, and shipping code.
• Enhance monorepo tooling, build systems, and CI/CD pipeline performance.
• Develop and integrate AI-driven workflows to transition from AI-assisted to AI-native development.
• Architect the technical strategy for migrating away from the monolith.
• Collaborate with product teams to gather feedback and refine developer tooling.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance through design reviews and high-quality code contributions.

Requirements

• Proven experience in developer productivity, platform engineering, or building developer-facing products.
• Expertise in managing large-scale technical challenges such as monorepo tooling, build systems like Bazel, or CI performance optimization.
• Product-oriented mindset with a focus on measuring adoption and developer satisfaction.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical standards across an organization of 100+ engineers.
• Experience building AI-based developer tools, such as coding agents or LLM-driven workflows.

Nice to have

• Deep knowledge of the Python ecosystem.
• Experience managing GitHub Actions at scale.

Skills & tools

• Bazel
• CI/CD pipelines
• Monorepo tooling
• Python
• GitHub Actions
• AI/LLM development workflows

Practical notes

• This role requires working onsite at our Seattle hub on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
• Travel is required 2-3 times per year for company and department offsites.
• Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, equity, 18 weeks of paid parental leave, a wellness/development stipend, and free access to therapy via the Grow platform.
• We use AI tools like Ashby and BrightHire for recruitment and interview recording; candidates may opt out of recording or request accommodations by contacting talentops@growtherapy.com.