Growth Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Build and ship behavior-based user experiences that drive onboarding, activation, and retention across Docker’s product suite.
• - Design and implement end-to-end growth experiments—from hypothesis to implementation to post-launch analysis.
• - Use product data and funnel analytics to identify friction, uncover opportunities, and prioritize engineering work that delivers business impact.
• - Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, 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.
• - Own implementation and maintenance of tracking instrumentation for Heap and Looker dashboards.
• - Own implementation of Adobe Target as an experimentation, personalization, and optimization engine.
• - Leverage A/B testing frameworks and in-app engagement tools to optimize personalized user journeys.
• - Build internal tools and automation to support rapid iteration and testing infrastructure.
• - Share experiment outcomes, insights, and next-step recommendations with stakeholders across product and business functions.

Required Skills

• - 3+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally within a growth, experimentation, or product-focused team.
• - Proficient in JavaScript (React preferred) and at least one backend language such as Go or Python.
• - Experienced in designing and executing A/B tests, ideally in production environments.
• - Skilled in analyzing user behavior and product metrics, using tools like Heap, Looker, Mixpanel, or Snowflake.
• - Familiar with Docker’s architecture and/or experience contributing to internal systems like Pinata or SaaS-Mega is a plus.
• - Comfortable working across product surfaces (web, desktop, cloud) and layers (frontend, backend, APIs, internal tooling).
• - Strong communicator and collaborator with a pragmatic approach to experimentation and iteration.
• - Outcome-oriented and self-directed, with a passion for improving developer experience and product usability at scale.

Benefits

• - Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• - Designated quarterly Whaleness Days
• - Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• - 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
• - Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
• - PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• - Quarterly, company-wide hackathons
• - 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