A marketing coordinator who builds a working approval workflow in a low-code platform over a weekend has just become, functionally, a developer, whether anyone on the engineering team recognizes it that way or not. This Citizen Developer Consultant role exists to support exactly that kind of builder: a full-time, fully remote position open to candidates anywhere, paying $111,500 a year within an Automation and Low-Code practice. Low-code platforms have made building genuinely useful tools possible for people without a formal engineering background, and that shift has created a real need for someone who can support it responsibly.
The minimum education requirement is a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Beyond that, the role calls for 24 months of hands-on development experience, along with a portfolio that shows real projects rather than course exercises alone. Proficiency with modern development tools is expected on day one, since there is limited ramp-up time built into the role. A candidate straight out of a bootcamp with strong project work can meet the bar just as well as someone from a traditional four-year computer science track, provided the portfolio holds up under questions.
What sets this position apart from a standard developer role is the audience. You are not only writing code yourself; you are reviewing, guiding, and sometimes rebuilding what non-engineers have already put together using low-code and citizen development platforms. That mix of hands-on building and consulting is unusual, and it is also the entire reason this role pays what it does.
Most weeks involve a mix of hands-on building and cross-functional review work with the citizen developers already using low-code tools across the business.
One recurring pattern: a business team builds a workflow that works fine at ten records a day and quietly breaks at ten thousand. Finding that ceiling before it causes a real problem, then rebuilding the underlying logic properly, is a core part of the job rather than an occasional exception. The business team that built the original version usually stays involved through the rebuild too, since the goal is to hand back something they can still understand and maintain, not to quietly replace their work behind their back.
Nice to have, not required: prior experience specifically training or coaching non-technical builders, and exposure to governance frameworks for low-code platforms at scale. Neither is a dealbreaker if the core technical foundation is solid. Most people in this role pick up the specific low-code platforms in use within their first month, since the underlying engineering logic transfers even when the interface looks completely different.
The base salary is $111,500, with a full-time benefits package built around the realities of hybrid technical and consulting work.
Remoteroles has seen this specific role type grow alongside the broader shift toward low-code platforms inside larger companies, where the gap between what business teams can build and what they can safely maintain keeps widening. That gap is where the value of this role actually shows up, since it is far cheaper to catch a fragile workflow early than to rebuild it after an outage takes down something a whole department depends on.
The strongest candidates have real patience for explaining a technical constraint to someone without a technical background, without making that person feel talked down to. A rigid insistence that everything be built the traditionally coded way will not serve anyone well here, since a significant part of the job is meeting citizen developers where they already are. Someone who has previously worked purely on an isolated engineering team, with little exposure to non-technical stakeholders, should expect a genuine adjustment period, and that is a normal transition to expect, not a sign that someone is a poor fit for the role.
There is no office or city tied to this role. Collaboration with both engineering peers and citizen developers happens through shared repositories, documented low-code standards, and scheduled reviews, generally with a core block of overlapping hours each week for pairing sessions and workflow reviews.
Outside of that block, focused development and documentation work can happen on a schedule that suits you, provided review commitments to other teams are met on time. Async written reviews are common practice here, since a well-documented pull request or workflow comment often serves a distributed, non-technical audience better than a live call would. Written explanations also leave a record other citizen developers can reference later, which matters more in this role than in most purely internal engineering work.
Apply with a resume and a short description of a project where you either built something for non-technical users or cleaned up a low-code system that had outgrown its original design. That kind of example tells the hiring team more than a general list of tools ever could, and there is no need to have every listed skill nailed down before applying if the underlying foundation is strong. Candidates who move forward can expect a technical conversation followed by a short review exercise based on a real, simplified workflow. That exercise is designed to reflect the actual job, reviewing something a non-engineer built, not a whiteboard puzzle disconnected from the work itself.