Head of Engineering Developer Experience

Own the developer experience strategy and roadmap for developer tooling, CI/CD, and the internal platform. Lead developer productivity, evolve Backstage, build platform templates and shared libraries, define productivity metrics, prepare platforms for AI-assisted development, and lead and mentor platform engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Developer Experience strategy and roadmap.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling improvements.
• Define and report DevEx and engineering productivity metrics.
• Own and evolve the Backstage service catalogue.
• Manage the Developer Productivity function.
• Build Java/Spring and Python paved-road templates.
• Own authentication and common-functionality libraries.
• Build, lead, and mentor platform engineering teams.
• Prepare the engineering platform for agentic development.
• Define the operating model for AI-developed applications in production.
• Partner with engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience leading Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, or DevOps/SRE teams at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling in a modern cloud environment.
• Experience with Backstage or a comparable internal developer portal.
• Experience running developer productivity or paved-road functions.
• Experience building Java/Spring and Python templates and shared libraries.
• Knowledge of DORA metrics or SPACE.
• Familiarity with Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
• Knowledge of guardrails and governance for AI-developed applications.
• Strong people leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in financial services or a regulated technology environment is a plus.

Benefits

• Share options
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity leave
• Paid paternity leave
• Paid adoption leave
• Sabbatical leave
• Private family health insurance
• OPD coverage
• Health insurance top-up
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Therapy sessions
• Meditations
• Mental wellbeing workshops
• Paid volunteering days
• Paid personal development days
• Learning and development budget
• Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually
• Home office setup contribution
• Laptop ownership
• Office snacks
• Coffee
• Tea
• Lunch