Senior Engineer Technical Lead

Benefits Youll Love

NextDeavor offers health vision and dental benefits for contract employees Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match) Opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation with potential for extended or permanent full-time employment

Become a Key Player as a Senior Engineer / Technical Lead

You will lead the effort to build and scale an AI-driven developer productivity and engineering intelligence program that measures engineering speed quality and reliability. Your work will influence engineering and leadership stakeholders by delivering dashboards scorecards and automation that enable data-driven decisions. This role is fully onsite (San Jose) and works closely with engineering platform data and developer experience teams.

Heres How Youll Make an Impact on the Team

• Instrument and track AI tool adoption and measure suggestion acceptance and AI-assisted PR trends
• Connect AI usage and tooling to real delivery outcomes and publish weekly scorecards
• Implement and monitor DORA metrics (deployment frequency lead time change failure rate recovery time)
• Build GitHub-based insights such as PR cycle time (p50/p75) review SLAs throughput WIP aging and mergedeploy timing
• Enforce test coverage targets and monitor end-to-end health (Playwright pass rate flakiness time-to-fix)
• Track rework signals (churn reverts hotfixes) and ensure reliability does not regress with increased velocity
• Standardize PR templates and labels automate ingestion from GitHub/CI/CD/AI tools and deliver unified team-level dashboards
• Establish privacy-conscious governance standards around AI usage and developer metrics

Heres What Youll Need to Be Successful in This Role

• 6 years of software engineering experience (platform or backend preferred)
• Experience with GitHub APIs CI/CD systems and engineering analytics
• Familiarity with DORA/Four Keys metrics
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Playwright preferred)
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance speed reliability and sustainability
• Demonstrated ability to work across engineering platform and leadership stakeholders
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Heres What Else Might Help You Out

• Experience with AI developer tools
• Experience building internal analytics or developer platforms
• Background in developer experience (DevEx) or engineering enablement

Ready to Make Your Mark

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