Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer
Posted Today by Lorien
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London, UK
Summary: The role of a DevEx Engineer focuses on enhancing the productivity and experience of engineering teams by designing tools and optimizing workflows. The engineer will be responsible for building internal tools, improving CI/CD pipelines, and promoting best practices in software development. This position aims to ensure developers can build, test, and ship software more efficiently and reliably. The role requires a strong background in software engineering or DevOps, along with excellent communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building internal tools, services and libraries to streamline developer workflows
- Optimising CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability and simplicity
- Identifying engineering pain points and automating manual processes
- Improving developer documentation, onboarding guides and internal wikis
- Championing best practices in testing, code quality and deployment
- Monitoring build times, test reliability and other developer feedback loops
- Supporting internal development and test environments
- Promoting a developer-first culture across engineering and product
Key Skills:
- Background in software engineering/DevOps/platform engineering
- Strong programming skills (any modern language)
- Experience with CI/CD tooling
- Familiarity with containers/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience improving developer workflows or engineering processes
- Experience with developer portals or internal platforms
- Observability tooling knowledge
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Experience improving DX in monorepos or microservices environments
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer
Location: London
We're looking for a DevEx Engineer to boost the productivity, efficiency and overall experience of our engineering teams. You'll design tools, enhance workflows and champion best practices to ensure developers can build, test and ship software faster and more reliably.
What you'll be doing- Building internal tools, services and libraries to streamline developer workflows
- Optimising CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability and simplicity
- Identifying engineering pain points and automating manual processes
- Improving developer documentation, onboarding guides and internal wikis
- Championing best practices in testing, code quality and deployment
- Monitoring build times, test reliability and other developer feedback loops
- Supporting internal development and test environments
- Promoting a developer-first culture across engineering and product
What we're looking for
Top skills (in order of priority):
- Background in software engineering/DevOps/platform engineering
- Strong programming skills (any modern language)
- Experience with CI/CD tooling
Essential:
- Familiarity with containers/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience improving developer workflows or engineering processes
Nice to have:
- Experience with developer portals or internal platforms
- Observability tooling knowledge
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Experience improving DX in monorepos or microservices environments
Why join?
- Shape engineering excellence across the organisation
- Drive real improvements to developer speed, quality and satisfaction
- Work closely with high-performing product and engineering teams
Want to make a measurable impact on how developers build and deliver software? Apply now.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.