Developer Experience Engineer – DevEx

Arbor Education

Developer Experience Engineer enhancing developer experience by building automation and tooling for Arbor’s engineering team. Collaborating with teams to streamline workflows and embed security practices.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorMid-Level💰 £80,000 - £90,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSBootstrapCloudJenkinsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain Arbor’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP), providing self-service tooling, consistent build pipelines, and standardised deployment workflows.
Develop project scaffolding and templates that allow engineers to rapidly bootstrap new services with best practices built in.
Integrate core engineering systems (CI/CD, observability, service catalogue, documentation) to provide a joined-up developer experience.
Collaborate with the Platform Engineering and DevSecOps teams to ensure the IDP embeds security scanning, dependency management, and compliance controls by default.
Embed AI-assisted tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Codex etc) into the developer workflow.
Partner with the Head of Developer Productivity to define and measure AI efficiency metrics.
Develop plugins, workflows, or integrations that help engineers use AI tools safely and effectively.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of AI onboarding, training, and developer enablement.
Consolidate and rationalise the engineering toolchain, ensuring consistency across teams.
Build automations and command-line utilities to streamline repetitive development tasks.
Maintain and improve shared build/test/deploy templates and scripts.
Collaborate with teams to identify pain points in the development lifecycle and propose solutions.
Collaborate with DevSecOps to build and maintain reusable secure coding templates, CI/CD guardrails, and compliance checks.
Contribute to 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 quantify the impact of new tooling or process changes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong background in software engineering (hands-on experience with modern backend or full-stack development).
Experience 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 enthusiasm for driving adoption in a structured, measurable way.
Working knowledge of Snyk or equivalent security scanning tools, and understanding of how to embed these in developer workflows.
Strong automation skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent scripting).
Working knowledge of software delivery metrics (e.g. DORA, SPACE) and experience using data to drive improvement.
Collaborative mindset and ability to partner across multiple engineering teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Dog friendly offices!

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringbackend developmentfull-stack developmentdeveloper-facing toolingCI/CDcloud-native deploymentautomation (Python, Bash)security scanning (Snyk)AI-assisted development toolssoftware delivery metrics (DORA, SPACE)

Soft Skills

collaborative mindsetpartnering across teams