Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer

London
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Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer

Location: London
Contract Type: 12 months

About the Role

Guidant Global is supporting our client in hiring a Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to enhance the productivity, satisfaction and efficiency of engineering teams.
This role focuses on improving tooling, workflows, documentation and internal platforms to ensure developers can build, test and deliver software quickly, reliably and with minimal friction.

You'll be at the heart of engineering excellence - streamlining processes, advocating best practices, and championing a developer‑first mindset across technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build internal tools, libraries and services that improve developer workflows
Optimise CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability and developer efficiency
Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points and automate repetitive tasks
Maintain and improve developer documentation, onboarding guides and internal wikis
Promote best practices in coding standards, testing, automation and deployment
Monitor and enhance developer feedback loops (build times, test performance, tooling reliability)
Support internal development platforms, testing environments and shared services
Champion a developer‑first culture and influence engineering process improvements

Top Skills (in order of priority)

Background in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Excellent communication and collaboration skills - able to work across multiple engineering teams

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience designing or improving developer tooling and workflows
Hands‑on experience with CI/CD automation and build pipelines
Good understanding of container technologies and cloud‑native development
Experience maintaining internal developer platforms or shared engineering environments
Ability to identify process bottlenecks and drive improvements in developer productivity
Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence engineering standards

Nice to Have

Experience building or maintaining developer portals or internal platforms
Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
Knowledge of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
Experience improving developer experience in monorepos or microservices architectures

Who You Are

You are a hands‑on engineer who cares deeply about developer happiness, efficiency and quality. You enjoy building tools, solving friction points and helping teams deliver great software faster. You communicate clearly, collaborate broadly and advocate for engineering excellence.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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