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
1. Building internal tools, services and libraries to streamline developer workflows
2. Optimising CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability and simplicity
3. Identifying engineering pain points and automating manual processes
4. Improving developer documentation, onboarding guides and internal wikis
5. Championing best practices in testing, code quality and deployment
6. Monitoring build times, test reliability and other developer feedback loops
7. Supporting internal development and test environments
8. Promoting a developer‑first culture across engineering and product
What we're looking for
Top skills (in order of priority):
9. Background in software engineering / DevOps / platform engineering
10. Strong programming skills (any modern language)
11. Experience with CI/CD tooling
Essential:
12. Familiarity with containers/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
13. Excellent communication and collaboration skills
14. Experience improving developer workflows or engineering processes
Nice to have:
15. Experience with developer portals or internal platforms
16. Observability tooling knowledge
17. Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience
18. Experience improving DX in monorepos or microservices environments
Why join?
19. Shape engineering excellence across the organisation
20. Drive real improvements to developer speed, quality and satisfaction
21. Work closely with high‑performing product and engineering teams
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.