Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer
Location: London
Contract Type: 12 months
About the Role
Guidant Global is supporting our client in hiring a Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to enhance the productivity, satisfaction and efficiency of engineering teams.
This role focuses on improving tooling, workflows, documentation and internal platforms to ensure developers can build, test and deliver software quickly, reliably and with minimal friction.
You'll be at the heart of engineering excellence - streamlining processes, advocating best practices, and championing a developer‑first mindset across technical teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build internal tools, libraries and services that improve developer workflows
- Optimise CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability and developer efficiency
- Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points and automate repetitive tasks
- Maintain and improve developer documentation, onboarding guides and internal wikis
- Promote best practices in coding standards, testing, automation and deployment
- Monitor and enhance developer feedback loops (build times, test performance, tooling reliability)
- Support internal development platforms, testing environments and shared services
- Champion a developer‑first culture and influence engineering process improvements
Top Skills (in order of priority)
- Background in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills - able to work across multiple engineering teams
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience designing or improving developer tooling and workflows
- Hands‑on experience with CI/CD automation and build pipelines
- Good understanding of container technologies and cloud‑native development
- Experience maintaining internal developer platforms or shared engineering environments
- Ability to identify process bottlenecks and drive improvements in developer productivity
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence engineering standards
Nice to Have
- Experience building or maintaining developer portals or internal platforms
- Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
- Knowledge of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
- Experience improving developer experience in monorepos or microservices architectures
Who You Are
You are a hands‑on engineer who cares deeply about developer happiness, efficiency and quality. You enjoy building tools, solving friction points and helping teams deliver great software faster. You communicate clearly, collaborate broadly and advocate for engineering excellence.
Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
