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About the role
Our engineers are only as effective as the tools, codebase, and workflows around them. As a Developer Experience Engineer, you’ll make our large, evolving codebase easier to build, change, and reason about, for both human developers and AI agents. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Significant experience (typically 7+ years for Senior, 10+ for Staff) working in large, complex codebases
- Deep experience with application or platform frameworks, including upgrading them and managing their evolution over time
- Track record of leading migrations or large refactors, from planning through rollout
- Comfort navigating unfamiliar code quickly and making sound changes across many teams’ areas
- A solid understanding of agentic loops (tool use, context management, verification, failure handling) and a genuine willingness to keep investing in and evolving them as the field changes
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with teams whose code you’re changing
More about this role
Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.
Our engineers are only as effective as the tools, codebase, and workflows around them. As a Developer Experience Engineer, you’ll make our large, evolving codebase easier to build, change, and reason about, for both human developers and AI agents.
You will be responsible for the developer experience in our largest monorepos: building tools for and driving framework and language migrations, keeping dependencies healthy, improving build and test infrastructure, and shaping how agentic workflows operate in our development process. This is a high-leverage...
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