LuminDigital - Director, Development - Platform Ext & Dev Experience

• Build Lumin’s developer platform from the ground up, including sandbox environments, quick-start tooling, API explorer, and a DevEx portal that includes recipes, demo videos, and testing tools. • Create and own the overall structure and content strategy for the developer documentation portal. • Champion developer experience metrics in partnership with the PM, including adoption rates, time-to-first-call, integration success, and developer NPS. • Data & Extensibility Storytelling • Partner with Lumin’s data team to build a cohesive narrative around how FIs can use Lumin’s bulk data extraction capabilities in conjunction with the SDK to build powerful, data-driven applications. • Help external developers and partners understand the full scope of what they can build on the Lumin platform, connecting the dots between data pipelines, APIs, Design System and SDK capabilities. • AI Advocacy & Modern Development Practices • Stay current on AI-assisted development trends and tools; champion their adoption within the developer community building on Lumin’s platform. • Incorporate AI development best practices into SDK tooling, documentation, and the developer portal to help third-party developers build faster and smarter. • External Presence & Community • Serve as Lumin’s technical face with external developers, clients, prospects, and vendor partners. • Lead and co-present at SDK advisory councils, developer webinars, and roadmap sessions. • Support Sales in occasional enterprise engagements (1–2 per month) as a developer platform SME; educate Sales Engineering and Solutions Consultants on how to position and demo extensibility. • Cross-Functional Alignment • Work closely with SRE, Security, and Support teams to ensure infrastructure, access controls, and support processes align with the extensibility roadmap. • Collaborate across product, engineering, and marketing to ensure the developer platform is integrated into Lumin’s broader go-to-market strategy. • Team Leadership & Growth • Inherit and lead an existing team of developers; set clear direction, grow their capabilities, and build a high-performing DX engineering function. • Hire to expand the team as the extensibility program scales. • Foster a culture of developer empathy, as the team builds for developers, so they should think like developers. • Demonstrated experience building and delivering developer platforms, SDKs, or APIs, with 8+ years of software engineering or related leadership experience. • Strong engineering background with hands-on experience building or owning APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms. • Experience building and managing technical teams in a player-coach model, able to set strategy and roll up your sleeves when the team needs it. • Data-driven approach to developer experience, with fluency with metrics such as time-to-first-call, developer NPS, integration success rates, and adoption curves. • Deep understanding of what great developer experience looks like, with strong opinions on documentation, sandbox tooling, onboarding, and community. • Outstanding communication skills, equally comfortable in a whiteboard session with engineers, a roadmap presentation with clients, or a finalist sales meeting with a credit union CTO. • Familiarity with the AI developer tooling landscape and ability to translate those insights into platform positioning and team practices. • Naturally cross-functional, able to work fluidly with product, data, SRE, security, and sales without losing momentum. • Experience in fintech, banking technology, or platforms serving financial institutions is a plus, but not required. Curiosity about the CFI space is. • Minimal, generally 12 days or less per year, ~2X team get togethers a year • Less than 25% - Up to 65 work days of travel per year for a full time employee • Lumin Digital is the digital banking platform of choice for credit unions and community banks across the country. As we scale our extensibility program, the Director of Developer Experience & Platform Extensibility will lead the team that makes Lumin the best platform to build on in the community financial institution (CFI) space. • This is a player-coach director role. You will set strategy, lead and grow a team of developers, and get into the work when it counts, whether that’s shaping SDK architecture, presenting to a prospect alongside Sales, or co-presenting roadmap at the SDK advisory council. You will partner closely with the extensibility product manager and together you will define and execute a roadmap that elevates Lumin’s developer platform to industry leadership.