Senior Software Engineer, Growth

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Growth to join our Software Engineering Team focused on growth and experimentation initiatives. This role will partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing, and PLG to build, launch, and optimize high-impact growth experiments across Docker products and also build the CX for common Docker surfaces.

This is a full-stack software engineering role with a growth lens, focused on delivering measurable business outcomes like increased activation, retention, and expansion—by writing high-quality, production-grade code, instrumenting the right signals, and turning data into product improvements that millions of developers feel.

• Build and ship behavior-based user experiences that drive onboarding, activation, checkout flows, and retention across Docker’s product suite.
• Design and implement end-to-end growth experiments—from hypothesis to implementation to post-launch analysis.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, and Ops teams to deliver high-velocity experiments that improve core funnel metrics.
• Write production-grade code across Docker’s stack, including frontend (React/JavaScript), backend (Go/Python), and cloud services.
• Leverage A/B testing frameworks and in-app engagement tools to optimize personalized user journeys.
• Share experiment outcomes, insights, and next-step recommendations with stakeholders across product and business functions.
• This role may require participation in an on-call rotation to provide support outside of standard business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, as needed.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including exposure to growth engineering, experimentation systems, Data engineering, product-focused development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React for building user-facing product experiences and Go for backend services.
• Hands-on experience implementing A/B tests and feature flags in production environments.
• Familiarity with analytics and experimentation tools such as Adobe Target, Unleash, or Looker.
• Comfortable working across the full stack — front end and backend.
• Experience with Snowflake, Redshift, or similar data warehouse tooling for querying experiment results.
• Familiarity working on AI solutions and data pipelines.

Requirements

• Strong communicator and collaborator with a pragmatic and flexible approach to experimentation and iteration.
• Outcome-oriented and self-directed, with a passion for improving developer experience and product usability at scale.
• Execution-focused and thorough — you care about shipping clean, well-instrumented code, not just shipping fast.
• Comfortable with ambiguity as well as precise requirements.
• Works well with and builds trust across all organizations at any level.

Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life.
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break.
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work.
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment).
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month.
• PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy.
• Training stipend for conferences, courses, and classes.
• Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company.
• Docker Swag.
• Medical benefits, retirement, and holidays vary by country.
• Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris.