Lead Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About the Role

Magic Eden is hiring a Lead Software Engineer, Developer Experience to drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface, lead and mentor a team of engineers, and ensure high engineering quality. This role involves significant technical contribution, cross-team coordination, and partnership with a Principal Engineer and Product Owner to execute on the roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface: MCP server, CLI and local dev environment, public SDK, documentation pipeline, sandbox and preview environments, deploy and versioning path.
• Lead and mentor a team of three engineers — setting technical direction within the squad, running code reviews, and ensuring consistent engineering quality.
• Own cross-team coordination: identify and pull inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams; unblock dependencies; manage integration timelines.
• Actively contribute to implementation — you ship production code alongside the team, particularly on the most critical and complex components.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint-level execution plans and realistic timelines.
• Collaborate with the PO on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions, and trade-offs between speed and correctness.
• Own the team's delivery rhythm: sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
• Define and maintain the team's engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
• Act as the primary technical contact for integrations with headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding.
• Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and defining what great looks like for the engineers joining this team.