Junior Developer Experience Engineer (Boulder, CO)

Stream is looking to expand the Developer Experience team in our Boulder office (full-time, 3 days/week in-office). In this hands-on role, you’ll obsess over the end-to-end developer experience across Stream’s products — testing real-world flows, surfacing friction on user flows, and making Stream easier and more delightful for developers to use. This position offers excellent growth potential, close mentorship from senior product leaders, and the opportunity to take ownership of a role in an exciting marketplace.

About You

• You’re an early-career software engineer who cares deeply about usability, clarity, and polish.

• You have strong knowledge of at least one of the following: React/JavaScript/TypeScript, Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), Flutter, or React Native.

• You’re meticulous about analyzing multi-step flows and documenting them clearly and accurately.

• You’re curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable learning by doing. You’ll use your technical knowledge of APIs and SDKs to learn the Stream products and services inside-out.

• You will use your technical communication skills to clearly document issues, write tutorials, and help validate improvements alongside engineering, product, and design teams.

• Being organized and motivated is key to this role. You’ll be expected to manage your own time effectively to contribute to projects and initiatives across departments.

• As our customer communication and internal correspondence are in English, you’ll be required to be fluent in English and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus Points If…

• You have open-source contributions or side projects that demonstrate your initiative.

• You have an interest in developer tooling, SDK design, or documentation.

• You have experience with mobile application frameworks such as React Native, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or Flutter.

• You have experience working on a codebase at a professional level (1–3 years of software engineering experience, internships, or equivalent projects).

The ideal candidate is predisposed to enjoy improving the developer journey and thrives when digging into details. You’ll work directly with engineering, product, design, and marketing teams as a technical reference and be the “first developer” on new DX work — surfacing confusion, bugs, and rough edges early.

Primary Responsibilities

• Test and review Stream’s core developer journeys, including onboarding flows, tutorials, sample applications, website demos, and dashboard experiences.

• Own and improve Stream’s documentation and overall developer narrative across Chat, Feeds, Video, and AI Moderation products.

• Act as a “first developer” on new DX work — surfacing confusion, bugs, and rough edges early in the process.

• Build and maintain demo apps, sample projects, and small open-source utilities.

• Partner with engineering, product, and design to clearly document issues and help validate improvements.

• Test SDK usage across Chat, Feeds, and Video to ensure a seamless developer experience.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Continue building our community support platform by assisting and writing short technical articles on best practices.

• Work on improvements and optimizations to our documentation and processes.

• Seek feedback from developers and customers to determine key growth areas in the developer experience.

• Assist the development team in managing new feature requests and bug reports.

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Why Join Stream?
Stream blends a supportive, social culture with deeply technical, world-class talent. You’ll work with global colleagues across 15+ countries and learn from experts who build infrastructure trusted by top apps worldwide. You’ll grow fast, be challenged, and make an impact from day one.

• From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available. As a rapidly growing startup (from 30 to 150+ employees since 2020), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. True ownership and accountability have a massive impact on your career — these are things you can rarely experience at large corporations.

Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), and Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).

Benefits

• 19+ days of paid time off plus 10 paid holidays

• Hybrid work flexibility (3 days a week from the office)

• Free health insurance for the employee and partial coverage for dependents (80% contribution coverage for health and 100% for dental and vision)

• 401k contribution plan with 4% match

• Fitness stipend

• Company equity

• Dog-friendly office!

• A Macbook Pro provided

• A Learning and Development budget

• Team lunches and plenty of snacks

• RTD pass + free parking pass on Pearl Street

• An office on Pearl Street in downtown Boulder

• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary parents

• The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups

• The possibility to visit our office in Amsterdam

Note: this list of benefits applies to US-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.

Compensation

Salary (for Colorado only): Our salary ranges are based on national averages. We have wide ranges so we can be flexible and determine compensation based on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, level of experience, and location. For Colorado-based candidates, the salary range for this position is $72,000 – $90,000. Compensation at all other locations will be based on the factors as stated above.

Our Culture

Stream has a casual social culture; our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Stream is a team of over 140+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.

We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.

Our team consists of the strongest talents all over the world, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.

Hybrid office policy: Applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy.

Hybrid office policy: applicants based (or relocating to) one of our office locations are expected to work according to the applicable local office attendance policy.

Equal opportunity employer statement: Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Note for external recruiters: We currently have this role covered and do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.