Backend Remote-emplois à Denver, Colorado ∙ Page 1

About the opportunity

As a Software Engineer on Contentful’s Ecosystem team, you will play a critical role in developing and refining tools, libraries, and documentation that make building on top of Contentful fast and easy for customer developers. You will be designing, developing, and maintaining developer tools such as client libraries/SDKs, the Contentful CLI, and developer documentation. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to champion the needs of external developer users across the company in order to provide guidance and ensure quality standards. Your expertise in creating seamless and intuitive developer experiences will play a direct role in Contentful’s growth and customer retention. The ideal candidate will be passionate about building remarkable solutions that make integration, content delivery, extensibility, and all other developer-centered Contentful tasks intuitive, fast, and easy. 

 Hybrid role, 2 days a week in our office in Denver

What to expect?

Developer Experience:

• Design and implement strategies that improve Contentful’s developer user experience.
• Build tools and frameworks that streamline the end-to-end development process.
• Identify and develop product enhancements to maximize the platform’s extensibility.
• 80% backend development, 20% Frontend development in  TypeScript, React, and Node.js

Developer Tools:

• Contribute to the development and improvement of tools that allow developers to customize Contentful to meet user and business needs.
• Actively engage with feedback from internal teams and external developers to identify and implement enhancements to our developer tools and SDKs.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our tools and SDKs remain cutting-edge and provide a remarkable developer experience.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide collaborative guidance to other engineers, fostering an inclusive and innovative work environment.
• Proactively drive alignment between product teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Stay up-to-date with advancements in developer tools, industry trends, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.

Community Engagement:

• Engage with customer and partner developers in order to stay connected with the struggles they face and help inform the team’s work and priorities.
• Monitor and respond to Contentful’s existing and prospective customers to obtain feedback, help drive the product vision, and find areas of opportunity and innovation.

What you need to be successful

• Create excellent products and services using TypeScript, React, and Node.js with a solid understanding of clean code practices and exposure to enterprise architectural design patterns.
• Experience with recent trends in developer tooling, developer productivity, and maintaining public, open-source libraries is a plus.
• Is a strong communicator with a passion for collaboration and pair programming.
• Is excited about collaborating with a broader engineering organization across multiple time zones and handling asynchronous communication.
• A passion for AI-driven innovation, thinking about how we can incorporate AI into extending our platform and building developer tools. 

What's In It For You?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees  and 85% of costs for your dependents. 
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss,  education days, and volunteer days
• Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family 
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties 
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
• A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business. 

Colorado Salary Statement: The salary range displayed is specifically for those potential hires who will work or reside in the state of Colorado if selected for the role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications (e.g. JD/technology), for example.

Colorado Salary Range: $118,000 - $167,000
[This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.]

The application deadline has been extended to 4/5/25

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