Developer Productivity Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Assist QVAC application teams in the development, review, testing, and delivery of dependable software with reduced friction.

• Concentrate on desktop and mobile applications, including their shared runtime, AI harness, and skills packages.

• Construct and maintain developer tools.

• Integrate AI agents into engineering workflows.

• Enhance code quality and automate delivery processes.

• Assess, integrate, and sustain developer tools and AI agents, which includes repository guidance and necessary integrations.

• Build and manage agents in CI and scheduled workflows to identify failures, suggest solutions, and provide actionable insights.

• Enhance automated pull request reviews by analyzing finding accuracy and minimizing reviewer distractions.

• Develop code quality scripts and checks to assess complexity, function and file size, dependency cycles, and performance regressions.

• Collaborate with package owners to establish practical thresholds and targeted refactoring efforts.

• Enhance development environments, testing, and build and release processes.

• Prioritize enhancements with engineering teams, facilitate adoption through documentation and onboarding, and evaluate effectiveness, reliability, and operational costs.

• Investigate CI failures, diagnose compatibility and performance regressions, and highlight changes that impact package interfaces or architecture.

• Oversee workflow enhancements from implementation to adoption and ongoing support.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building and maintaining developer tools or engineering automation utilized by others.

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.

• Practical experience in utilizing and integrating AI coding tools or agents.

• Good judgment regarding AI tool limitations, output validation, and the necessity for human review.

• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and systematic debugging of build, test, or integration failures.

• Strong commitment to code quality, maintainable code, effective automated checks, and behavior-preserving refactoring.

• Capability to work independently while collaborating with engineers.

• Excellent communication skills in English.

• Ability to thrive within a remote, globally distributed team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a globally diverse, remotely distributed team.

• Chance to influence the tooling roadmap.

• Professional collaboration with engineers to enhance tooling.

• Documentation and onboarding support for adopted tools.