Job Description
Company Description: Veracross provides SaaS-based School Information Systems (SIS) designed to meet the specific needs of independent K-12 schools worldwide. Our one-record solution combines the power of a fully integrated single-record database, personalized communication tools, and an elegant architecture that is unique in our industry. We are a growing, values-led community of employees in the US, UK and Australia who share a vision to unify school communities, improve the quality of education, and enhance learning. Veracross is five product brands in one global tech company Veracross SIS is a one-person, one-record school management platform Magnus Health provides cloud-based Student Health Record (SHR) solutions Digistorm connects with their communities through Digistorm Websites, Digistorm Funnel, and Digistorm Apps. Epraise incentivizes student well-being and connects teachers, students, and families. Firefly provides an online learning space for students and teachers About the Role: We're hiring our first Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer — a role at the intersection of platform engineering, tooling, automation, and AI-first development practices. You’ll own the systems, standards, and integrations that make our engineering teams faster, more consistent, and better equipped to leverage agentic workflows across a multi-language, multi-product codebase spanning Ruby on Rails, PHP/Laravel, C#, and Java. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role. You’ll partner closely with engineering leadership to define and execute our 2026 AI-first engineering roadmap, serving as the connective tissue between our tools, teams, and processes. What to Expect: Contribute meaningfully to the engineering organization at both the individual and team level. Serve as an internal advocate and educator for developer tooling — run training sessions, labs, and internal demos. Build and evolve the tooling, workflows, and platform capabilities that enable engineers to deliver high-quality software efficiently. You will own the GitHub platform, pipeline and repository standards at Veracross. Modernize and standardize our development ecosystem — from repository structure to CI/CD pipelines to AI-assisted workflows. Use AI agents and copilots to generate code, debug issues, write tests, and optimize performance across multiple stacks. Create best practices for AI instructional files accross repositories and push those standards and best practices forward. Provide technical mentorship and guidance on best practices, tooling, and AI-first development patterns. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate specifications into efficient, repeatable workflows. Integrate with other product areas, ensuring DevEx tooling supports systems like our SIS, Admissions, and Fundraising platforms. Enhance internal tools and developer workflows through automation, intelligent integrations, and lifecycle-spanning pipelines. Assist in documenting systems, architecture, and engineering processes, ensuring clarity for both humans and AI agents. Work to drive meaningful context into the AI development ecosystem at Veracross to enable the AI tooling to probvde better and more robust options for engineers. Build and maintain integrations with third-party systems commonly used in our domain.