Software Engineer

The Company

GitKraken is the developer experience (DevEx) platform of choice for more than 40 million developers and 100,000 organizations globally. Combining built-in AI and powerful workflow orchestration, GitKraken empowers development teams to eliminate unnecessary toil, streamline collaboration, and accelerate productivity. GitKraken's seamless integrations with leading Git providers, issue tracking tools, and AI solutions make it the most versatile DevEx platform available across desktop, command line, IDE, web, and mobile environments. Discover smarter, faster development at www.gitkraken.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team, with a focus on building the next generation of AI-powered developer experiences. In this role, you will help bring agentic workflows and LLM-driven capabilities to life directly inside the tools that millions of developers use every day and you will be using those tools yourself as you build them.

You will work across our frontend surfaces to design and ship features that integrate large language models, automate toil, and make GitKraken feel genuinely intelligent. This is a great opportunity to grow your skills in agentic systems, prompt engineering, and developer-facing API design while contributing to a product with deep real-world impact.

We are committed to having an inclusive and authentic work environment where unique perspectives, skills, and backgrounds are celebrated. We work hard to foster diversity in our workplace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements, don't let self-filtering and imposter syndrome get in the way of a great fit. We would love to hear from you!

What You'll Do

• Build and ship AI-powered frontend features that make GitKraken feel like a genuine AI teammate for developers.
• Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others) and agentic frameworks into GitKraken's frontend, designing the UI/UX flows that make complex model interactions feel simple and trustworthy.
• Collaborate with backend and platform engineers to define developer-facing APIs that power agentic workflows, surfacing the right data at the right time in the GitKraken interface.
• Participate in the planning and technical design of new features, surfacing unanswered questions early and proposing alternatives that align with user goals and architectural constraints.
• Write clear, maintainable TypeScript and React code — because this codebase is large, evolving, and used by a global team that values readability as much as performance.
• Participate in code reviews, manual testing, and iterative feedback cycles to ensure every release meets the quality bar our users expect.

What You'll Bring

• Strong programming skills in TypeScript and React
• Build and refine agentic workflows that reason across multiple steps and contexts
• Prompt Engineering: Strong skills in prompt engineering
• Familiarity with LLM APIs and AI-assisted development tools — you've built with them or used them deeply enough to understand their strengths, failure modes, and user experience implications.
• An instinct for translating ambiguous product requirements into well-scoped technical plans, with a habit of asking the right questions before writing a line of code.
• A solid foundation in computer science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and design patterns — that informs how you approach complex UI and data problems.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure that AI outputs align with user needs and product goals
• Stay current with the latest generative AI developments and apply them to new use cases

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with cross-platform desktop application development.
• Prior work on developer tools, IDE extensions, or productivity-focused applications.
• Contributions to open-source projects or a portfolio of personal projects that demonstrate initiative and craft.

How You'll Be Rewarded

• 💵 Excellence — Competitive compensation with annual performance-based pay increases
• 🏖 Balance — Flexible Paid-Time-Off Policy & paid company holidays (chosen by our employees)
• 👶 Parent life — Generous paid parental leave
• 🐶 Pets — Pet insurance plan (with no exclusions)
• 🍎 Health — Health, dental, and vision insurance with competitive employer cost-sharing
• 🌵 Headquarters — Modern, fully equipped offices designed to maximize productivity in a hybrid environment
• 🏆 Culture — Great Place to Work Certified
• 📚 Growth — Paid career development opportunities, audiobook subscriptions, and mentorship
• 🔮 Future — 401(k) retirement plan plus company matching
• 🛫 Travel — Company paid domestic trip after your 1-year anniversary & an international trip every 5 years

Location

This is a hybrid position based in Scottsdale, AZ. This role combines the flexibility of remote work with the benefits of meaningful in-person collaboration. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Phoenix area.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At GitKraken, we believe that diversity among our teammates is critical to our success as a company. GitKraken evaluates all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, gender expression, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability status, or any other legally protected class. We recruit, hire, and retain top talent from a diverse candidate pool.