Open Lending is forming a new Platform Team to accelerate software engineers, reduce cognitive load, and create an outstanding developer experience. The role is responsible for setting the foundation, creating the roadmap, and delivering high-impact initiatives to make developers more productive, confident, and empowered.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in platform, developer experience, or DevOps-related roles.
- Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Expertise in AI-powered development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, OpenAI API integrations, AI-assisted testing frameworks).
- Solid understanding of software delivery metrics (DORA, SPACE framework) and how to improve them.
- Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Java, Go, Python, or similar) and modern infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Experience setting up new platform or DX functions from scratch and influencing technical direction.
- Prior work integrating observability, monitoring, and logging into developer-facing systems.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the Developer Experience Roadmap for the Platform Team, aligned with organizational goals.
- Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms that simplify and standardize development workflows.
- Integrate and champion AI-powered developer tools (e.g., AI-assisted code generation, intelligent code review, automated documentation).
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI development tools and APIs for integration into developer workflows.
- Establish best practices, patterns, and reusable tooling for CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, and cloud-native deployments.
- Reduce cognitive load by abstracting complexity in infrastructure, testing, and release management.
- Drive self-service capabilities for engineers to provision environments, run tests, and deploy without heavy manual intervention.
Other
- Proven track record of delivering developer productivity and platform engineering initiatives at scale.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to bridge gaps between infrastructure teams and product engineers.
- Familiarity with Team Topologies and developer cognitive load reduction strategies.
- Opportunity to build a developer experience function from the ground up.
- High impact—your work directly accelerates the velocity of our entire engineering organization.
