Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

As a Software Engineer, Developer Productivity at Forus, you will own the systems that determine how fast our entire engineering team ships. Velocity is one of Forus' core advantages, and this role exists to compound it. You will own the CI/CD, operational workflows, build systems, and development environments that every engineer depends on, and the infrastructure that lets us build with AI coding agents rather than around them.

You will operate across the whole engineering org: owning the path from commit to production, designing the infrastructure that lets coding agents work safely and effectively in our codebase, automating the toil that slows everyone down, and driving company-wide adoption of agentic development. You will define what "fast" means at Forus, instrument it, and be measured on real outcomes: faster feedback loops, faster onboarding, and more shipped per engineer. It is a high-leverage, high-context seat that touches every team and directly shapes how quickly we can build.

This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.

Own our CI/CD, operational workflows, and build systems, including pipelines, deployment automation, and development environments, so the path from commit to production is fast and reliable.

Build the infrastructure that lets coding agents operate effectively in our codebase, including sandboxed execution, CI that validates agent-generated changes, and systems that give agents accurate context about our code.

Design and ship production tooling that automates engineering toil across the whole team: refactors, migrations, dependency upgrades, test generation, and PR triage.

Drive company-wide adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development, defining the golden paths, templates, and standards for how Forus builds.

Build the eval and guardrail systems that let us trust and measure what our agents ship.

Define the metrics that show whether we are getting faster and use them to decide what to build next: CI health, time-to-first-PR, deploy frequency, agent-merge success.

Partner with engineers across the team to surface friction and turn recurring pain into scalable systems.

A track record of building developer tooling, internal platforms, or CI/CD and development-environment infrastructure that other engineers depend on.

Strong systems and infrastructure instincts – you write production code, live in your terminal, and instinctively build reusable tools; strong in Python and Bash/Unix.

Gone deep on modern agentic development yourself (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) and want to productize that leverage for a team; you do not need prior experience building AI systems, but curiosity and evidence of shipping matter.

Demonstrated ability to drive adoption and change how a team works, not just hand over a tool.

The ability to go from an ambiguous problem to a clear, structured, shipped solution with minimal guidance.

A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals.

High NPS with your former teammates.

This is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

Forus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo. We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:

Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up.

Expand the solution space. Be resourceful and audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before committing.

Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones.

Raise the bar together. Hold a high standard for execution, push each other directly, and win as a team.