
Software Engineer - Productivity
WorkOSPosted 6/18/2025

Software Engineer - Productivity
WorkOS
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Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to optimize our team's productivity and collaboration. As part of WorkOS, you will work with a distributed team across North America time zones to build enterprise-ready apps. Your responsibilities will include conducting internal research, building cross-functional trust, and synthesizing needs into a cohesive strategy. You will also interface with leadership and vendors to procure the right tools and environments. With excellent interpersonal skills and experience in software development, you will be part of a fast-growing company offering competitive pay, substantial equity grants, healthcare insurance, and remote working arrangements. Our stack includes TypeScript, React, and Postgres, and we offer resources that emphasize personal and familial well-being. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusiveness.
Job Description
Responsibilities ✔️
- Conducting internal research to understand each of our engineers and how they work
- Building cross-functional trust by listening to and understanding each of your teammates
- Synthesizing the variety of needs and asks into a cohesive strategy that leadership will understand and support
- Interfacing with leadership & vendors to procure the right tools and environments to suit your teammates
- Improving internal tooling across the company
- Crafting a long-term strategy that makes appropriate tradeoffs with short-term needs and asks
- Being a credible and visible voice at the company to make sure people know they’re being heard and understood
- Optimizing codebase patterns, building toolchains, CI
Qualifications 🌟
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Experience rolling out team-wide process/tooling changes
- Ability to identify the tradeoffs & needs of companies as they scale; ideally you’ve seen how both start-ups & mature companies operate
- Understanding of developer tool chains, including IDEs, text editors, compilers, debuggers and shells
- Experience writing documentation, including technical guides, coding standards and tutorials
- 8+ years experiences in software development
- Our stack is TypeScript, React, and Postgres (bonus points if you are familiar with these, but it's not required)