Black Forest Labs
DeveloperExperienceEngineer
“Developer Experience Engineer at Black Forest Labs. Skills: Developer Experience, API design, Full-stack development. Own DevExp as a product surface. Partner with platform engineering on API design”
Industry & Context.
spotting where the platform is friction
monthly in-person week, travel costs covered
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years building software, meaningful time on developer-facing products
Nice to Have
Background at a developer platform where DevExp was a top-level metric, built or meaningfully contributed to an MCP server real users / agents rely on, Experience with media-generation or other high-latency, async, job-shaped APIs, A public surface
What You'll Do.
Own DevExp as a product surface
Partner with platform engineering on API design
Work with product engineering on developer-facing surfaces
Make BFL the best visual AI platform for agents
Design the reference patterns
Stress-test every API and SDK change
Own the portfolio of entry points
Add composable workflows
Partner with the Growth engineer
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the API/platform eng team; Work with research; Work with DevRel; Partner with platform engineering; Work with product engineering; Partner with DevRel and the Creative Technologist team; Partner with the Growth engineer and Product
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