Developer Tools and Productivity Engineer
Job Title: Distinguished Engineer - Developer Tools & Productivity
Location: Palo Alto, CA or Jersey City, NJ
Employment Type: Full-Time, Individual Contributor
About the Role
An elite US Bank is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join our Developer Tools & Productivity team. This role is critical to enabling engineering excellence across the organization by designing, building, and optimizing tools, frameworks, and platforms that empower thousands of developers. You will be a hands-on technical leader, driving innovation and best practices in developer experience, build systems, and cloud-native workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and Develop high-performance developer tools, frameworks, and automation solutions to improve productivity and code quality.
- Lead Technical Strategy for developer experience initiatives, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across the enterprise.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points and deliver solutions that streamline development, testing, and deployment.
- Architect Cloud-Native Solutions leveraging AWS services for CI/CD pipelines, build orchestration, and developer environments.
- Champion Best Practices in software engineering, including code quality, performance optimization, and secure development.
- Mentor and Influence senior engineers and stakeholders through technical leadership and thought partnership.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex systems at scale.
- Expert-level Java development skills, including deep knowledge of JVM internals, performance tuning, and modern frameworks.
- Strong AWS experience, including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and IAM.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline) and build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle).
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, Bash, or similar).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to influence technical direction without formal authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with developer productivity platforms or internal developer portals.
- Familiarity with observability tools and performance monitoring.
- Contributions to open-source projects or thought leadership in developer tooling.
This is an onsite position working 5 days per week onsite in the firms Jersey City or Palo Alto office. At this time the team is unable to provide visa sponsorship.
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