# Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/spec-driven-development-sdd

Spec-Driven Development is a software engineering approach in which detailed specifications of requirements and behavior are written before implementation begins, serving as the authoritative source that guides coding, testing, and validation. It aims to reduce ambiguity and rework by ensuring developers, stakeholders, and automated tools agree on expected behavior upfront, and has gained renewed attention with AI coding assistants that can generate code directly from structured specs.

## Spec-Driven Development (SDD) in the job market

- Open roles: 5
- Employers hiring: 3
- Last checked: September 13, 2026

## Roles that use Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

- [Mobile Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/mobile-engineer) — 2
- [Hardware Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/hardware-engineer) — 1
- [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) — 1
- [Systems Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/systems-engineer) — 1

Related skills: [API Design](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/api-design), [Behavior-Driven Development](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/behavior-driven-development)

## Open roles requiring Spec-Driven Development (SDD) (5)

- [Power Instrumentation Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/58f1a37e-f706-4a29-bf20-456933a3e6a7/power-instrumentation-engineer-at-intel) at [Intel](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/intel) — Full-time, Santa Clara, CA, $122,440 – $172,860
- [Lead Engineer, Activity Apps](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/538ea664-c0f8-4000-beb4-d7bbc47cc946/lead-engineer-activity-apps-at-nike-inc) at [Nike, Inc.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nike-inc) — Beaverton, OR
- [Mobile Engineer - Android and Flutter](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/025f107f-542d-4420-ad2d-5e82c8db8d1d/mobile-engineer-android-and-flutter-at-comcast) at [Comcast](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/comcast)
- [Power & Performance Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/a49c6843-e694-4f60-9ef5-92bf569c8243/power-performance-engineer-at-intel) at [Intel](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/intel) — Full-time
- [Mobile Engineer - Android](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c92d4205-e5d5-4548-b484-a72b3566c7c9/mobile-engineer-android-at-comcast) at [Comcast](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/comcast)