Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Frontend DX Engineer role stands out in SaaS because developer experience is a direct lever on product delivery, reliability, and iteration speed, especially for API and platform-led businesses. ElevenLabs operates at the intersection of AI research and a multi-surface product suite, which typically creates varied build, test, and release needs across web apps and developer-facing platforms. A DX focus in that environment signals an engineering organization investing in repeatable systems rather than ad hoc fixes.
For a SaaS career, DX work builds durable, cross-company skills: shaping CI/CD and testing discipline, reducing friction in onboarding and local environments, and turning performance bottlenecks into measurable improvements. The emphasis on standardisation and tooling governance translates well to other SaaS teams that scale quickly and accumulate complexity. It also provides a practical path into broader platform engineering and internal developer platform ownership over time.
This role fits engineers who prefer leverage over feature throughput and who enjoy diagnosing workflow pain through data and developer feedback. It suits someone comfortable operating across teams, setting conventions, and making tradeoffs that balance autonomy with consistency. It is also a strong match for candidates drawn to remote-first collaboration and clear, maintainable engineering processes.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
How we work
High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
What we offer
Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.
About the role
We are looking for a frontend-leaning Developer Experience Engineer to improve developer productivity, simplify workflows, and optimize tooling for our growing engineering team.
Your general responsibilities will include:
Diagnosing and addressing bottlenecks in current developer workflows and tools.
Standardizing local development setups, CI/CD pipelines, dependency management, and testing infrastructure.
Be the internal expert on modern tooling, especially NextJS and CI/CD practices.
Specific projects might include:
Optimizing build performance.
Establishing a standardized local development environment.
Creating processes for adopting new tools and workflows efficiently.
Reducing flaky tests.
Requirements
We do not require formal certifications or degrees, but we are looking for demonstrated experience improving developer productivity and tooling, ideally as an early DX hire in a growing engineering organization.
We do require:
2+ years of relevant experience improving developer productivity and tooling.
Strong expertise with modern developer tools (NextJS or similar frontend bundlers, CI/CD pipelines).
Proven success in identifying and solving complex bottlenecks in complex, organically grown codebases.
Structured and proactive mindset capable of designing clear, intuitive, and sustainable workflows from ambiguous requirements.
Location
This role is remote and can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in Bangalore, Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Warsaw.
