Developer Experience Engineer – DevEx

🕒 April 28

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £80k - £90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• 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

• 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

• 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!