Developer Experience Engineer – DevEx

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain Arbor’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP), offering self-service tools, uniform build pipelines, and standardized deployment workflows.

• Create project scaffolding and templates that enable engineers to quickly launch new services with integrated best practices.

• Integrate essential engineering systems (CI/CD, observability, service catalog, documentation) to ensure a cohesive developer experience.

• Collaborate with the Platform Engineering and DevSecOps teams to ensure that the IDP incorporates security scanning, dependency management, and compliance controls by default.

• Integrate AI-assisted tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, etc.) into the developer workflow.

• Work alongside the Head of Developer Productivity to establish and evaluate AI efficiency metrics.

• Develop plugins, workflows, or integrations that assist engineers in safely and effectively utilizing AI tools.

• Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of AI onboarding, training, and developer enablement.

• Streamline and rationalize the engineering toolchain, promoting consistency across teams.

• Create automations and command-line utilities to simplify repetitive development tasks.

• Maintain and enhance shared build/test/deploy templates and scripts.

• Collaborate with teams to pinpoint pain points in the development lifecycle and propose solutions.

• Work with DevSecOps to develop and maintain reusable secure coding templates, CI/CD guardrails, and compliance checks.

• Aid in the collection and reporting of developer productivity data (e.g., build times, PR cycle times, deployment frequency).

• Support automation and observability for key developer metrics.

• Participate in post-implementation reviews to assess the impact of new tools or process changes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering with hands-on experience in modern backend or full-stack development.

• Experience in designing and building developer-facing tooling, pipelines, or platform components.

• Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (e.g., Atlassian Compass, Backstage, or similar).

• Practical experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) and cloud-native deployment (AWS preferred).

• Understanding of AI-assisted development tools and a passion for promoting structured, measurable adoption.

• Working knowledge of Snyk or equivalent security scanning tools, along with an understanding of how to incorporate these into developer workflows.

• Strong automation skills using Python, Bash, or equivalent scripting languages.

• Familiarity with software delivery metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE) and experience leveraging data for improvement.

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to partner across multiple engineering teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• A dedicated wellbeing team that promotes initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch and learns, manager training, mental health first aid training, and more!

• 32 days of holiday (in addition to Bank Holidays), consisting of 25 days of annual leave plus 7 extra company-wide days during Easter, Summer, and Christmas.

• Life Assurance providing a payout of 3x annual salary.

• Comprehensive wellness benefit through AIG Smart Health, offering a 24/7 virtual GP service, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance provided by Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension offered through Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

• 5 complimentary return-to-work maternity coaching sessions to help you transition during this exciting time of life!

• Access to services such as Calm and Bippit for financial wellbeing coaching.

• All roles promote flexible working, and we are open to discussing what that means for you.

• Social committees that organize team, office, and company-wide events to foster connections and celebrate achievements.

• Dedicated budget for professional development training (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships, etc.).

• Opportunity to volunteer with a charity of your choice for one day each year.

• Dog-friendly offices!