Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace

About the Opportunity

As a Software Engineer on Contentful’s Marketplace Ecosystem team, you will play a vital role in enhancing and supporting our App Marketplace and App Framework, enabling impactful extensibility for both internal and external developers.

In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain the App Marketplace, including building in-house apps, improving external developer contributions with a focus on security, and enhancing the app framework. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and address the needs and challenges of our customers and partners, working toward solutions that improve productivity and satisfaction. Your expertise in creating seamless, intuitive developer experiences will directly contribute to Contentful’s growth and customer engagement.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions, optimizing processes, and improving scalability while balancing strategic thinking with effective problem-solving. Experience with modern full-stack development trends, tooling, and maintaining public open-source libraries is beneficial.

This is a hybrid opportunity with 2 days in-office at our Denver hub.

What to expect?

App Marketplace:

• Design, plan, and build improvements to the Contentful App Marketplace, from usability and developer experience to security hardening to accessibility.
• Find process improvements and technical solutions to external contributions, reducing friction to contribution without concessions to security and user confidence.
• 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.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for developer products.

App Framework:

• Contribute to the development and improvement of tools that allow apps to customize Contentful to meet user and business needs through the App Framework.
• Actively engage with feedback from internal teams and external developers to identify and implement enhancements to the App Framework.
• Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our tools and SDKs stay up-to-date and continue to offer an outstanding 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.

Customer Empathy:

• Have an understanding of the struggles our customers 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

• Have 7+ years of software development experience.
• Enjoy building high-quality products and services using TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Knowledgeable about modern front-end frameworks and tools and can thoughtfully advocate for their use while understanding when it’s best to maintain existing solutions.
• Have experience and interest in software infrastructure and tooling, such as AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Communicate effectively and is passionate about collaboration, pair programming, and mentoring others.
• Excitement about collaborating with a broader engineering organization across multiple time zones and handling asynchronous communication.
• Curiosity about AI and interested in how it can be thoughtfully integrated into our platform to better serve customers.

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: $174,000 - $189,000
[This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.]

The application deadline has been extended to 1/21/25

#LI-Hybrid #LI-JE1