Quick Summary
Company Description
Veracross provides SaaS-based School Information Systems (SIS) tailored for independent K-12 schools globally. Our unique one-record solution integrates a single-record database, personalized communication tools, and elegant architecture. We are a growing, values-led community with a vision to unify school communities, improve education quality, and enhance learning.
Veracross operates five product brands:
- Veracross SIS: A comprehensive school management platform.
- Magnus Health: Cloud-based Student Health Record (SHR) solutions.
- Digistorm: Connects 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 are seeking our first Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer. This pivotal role combines platform engineering, tooling, automation, and AI-first development practices. You will own the systems, standards, and integrations that enhance our engineering teams' efficiency and consistency, enabling them to leverage agentic workflows across a multi-language codebase (Ruby on Rails, PHP/Laravel, C#, Java). This high-autonomy, high-impact position involves partnering with engineering leadership to define and execute our 2026 AI-first engineering roadmap, serving as a crucial link between our tools, teams, and processes.
What to Expect
- Contribute significantly to the engineering organization at both individual and team levels.
- Serve as an internal advocate and educator for developer tooling, running training sessions, labs, and demos.
- Build and evolve tooling, workflows, and platform capabilities to enable efficient, high-quality software delivery.
- Own the GitHub platform, pipeline, and repository standards at Veracross.
- Modernize and standardize our development ecosystem, from repository structure to CI/CD pipelines and AI-assisted workflows.
- Utilize AI agents and copilots for code generation, debugging, test writing, and performance optimization across multiple stacks.
- Create and advance best practices for AI instructional files across repositories.
- 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 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 for both human and AI agents.
- Drive meaningful context into the AI development ecosystem at Veracross to improve AI tooling options for engineers.
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party systems.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency with GitHub administration: Actions, Advanced Security, Dependabot, branch protection rules, and org-level configuration.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in complex, multi-repo environments.
- Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling at scale.
- Ability to troubleshoot data flow, performance, and integration issues across diverse stacks.
- Fluency in at least one scripting or backend language (Ruby, Python, PHP, TypeScript, etc.) for tooling and integrations.
- Experience using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, or custom agents).
- Comfort with prompt engineering and guiding AI toward high-quality code generation.
- Passion for developer productivity, clean code, and intelligent automation.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted test generation, coverage analysis, and automated documentation workflows.
- Experience using AI agents for code reviews, refactoring, and repository-level improvements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documentation (human and AI agents).
- Strong technical organization and planning abilities.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, mostly asynchronous environment.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and a collaborative mindset.
- 4+ years of professional programming or platform engineering experience.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL query optimization.
- Experience with Git/GitHub and modern source-control workflows.
- A service-oriented, team-first approach to engineering.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
Nice to Haves
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building or integrating MCP servers.
- Experience building or consuming RESTful APIs and partner integrations.
- Advanced SQL and relational database optimization techniques.
- Experience modernizing legacy stacks and incrementally migrating to new tooling and technologies.
- Understanding of backend architecture and its influence on developer workflows and tooling.
- Familiarity with AWS services, especially ECS for containerized deployments.
- Experience with Datadog, Sentry, Jira, or Confluence administration.
- Contributions to open-source developer tooling projects.
How We Think About This Role
Developer experience is a force multiplier. The right person in this role doesn’t just maintain tools — they raise the ceiling of what every engineer can accomplish. We’re looking for someone who is energized by the moment we’re in with AI-assisted development, has strong engineering fundamentals, and has the communication and organizational skills to drive adoption and change across a team. This is what it means to be a developer in 2026, and you’ll help define that for our organization.
Benefits
- 3 weeks of vacation per year
- 14 paid holidays per year (including the week off between Christmas and New Year's Eve)
- 56 Hours of paid sick leave annually
- Top tier benefits:
- Medical, Dental & Vision (Blue Cross Blue Shield & EyeMed)
- Veracross LLC Fidelity 401(k) Plan - Managed by Sentinel Benefits
Salary at Veracross is determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. The compensation range for this position is $120k to $150k (annualized USD) in addition to potential bonus.
We value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We seek to infuse diversity and inclusion in everything we do while promoting a culture where differences are embraced as strengths; opportunities are equal and accessible; consideration and respect are the norm; and all team members are supported in reaching their full potential.