Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Appian provides AI automation for important business processes at large organizations. The Lead AI Developer Tooling Engineer will build IDE integrations, CLIs, code-analysis tools, CI/CD workflows, and AI-enabled developer experiences while optimizing reliability and scale. The role also drives engineering excellence through code reviews, automation, mentoring, and technical documentation.
Responsibilities
- Develop Clean Software: Architect, build, and optimize developer-facing tools and services while maintaining a strong personal technical presence on the team
- Build Developer Tooling: Design and build the IDE integrations, CLIs, code-analysis, and CI/CD tooling that Appian's engineers rely on every day — treating developer experience as a first-class product
- Engineer with AI: Use AI coding tools fluently as a force multiplier: generating, reviewing, and critically evaluating AI-assisted code to ship faster without compromising quality or correctness
- Surface AI in Developer Workflows: Expose AI capabilities to developers through workflows that are fast, understandable, and debuggable — earning trust by making AI assistance transparent and easy to control
- Optimize Performance & Scale: Manage the availability, latency, and efficiency of developer tooling by engineering deep reliability into it and performing advanced system tuning
- Drive Engineering Excellence: Radiate development best practices across the department, perform meticulous code reviews on design and implementation, and build automation frameworks to prevent problem recurrence
- Mentor & Champion Talent: Actively coach, mentor, and guide junior engineers on software craftsmanship, providing the structural support necessary to accelerate their technical proficiency
- Influence Technical Documentation: Share your expert domain knowledge regularly across the department, building a reputation as a vital resource and publishing high-quality content to Engineering’s permanent documentation site
Skills
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related technical/analytical discipline
- 7+ years of relevant software development experience with a BS (or 5+ years of experience paired with a Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field)
- Experience building IDE, CLI, code-analysis, CI/CD, or developer-experience tools
- Working knowledge of local/remote execution, telemetry, privacy, and enterprise deployment constraints
- Strong language-server, parser, build-system, source-control, and diagnostics experience
- Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants and a strong ability to evaluate, coach others on, and selectively apply AI-generated code in a production engineering context
- Proven experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining a high-volume, mission-critical production service environment
- Exceptional ability to communicate highly technical architectures verbally, visually, and in writing to diverse engineering audiences
- Strong experience developing and operating services on public cloud infrastructure
- We value experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow, as these skills translate well into our Enterprise-Grade Orchestration environment
Benefits
- A discretionary bonus may be awarded in recognition of individual and company performance.
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Medical plans
- Dental plans
- Vision plans
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Wellness programs
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings account contributions
- Employee referral bonus program
- Learning and development resources
- Certain positions may be eligible for equity awards.
- Department-specific training during onboarding
- Dedicated mentorship
- First-Friend program
- Leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers
- Specialized department training through Appian University
- Skills-based training
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee-led affinity groups
- Health coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Retirement/pension plan
- Wellness dollars
- Family-forming benefits
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