Director of Developer Productivity
Core
Lead the engineering organization responsible for developer tooling, service platform infrastructure, and AI-native developer experience strategies to accelerate the software development lifecycle for hundreds of services.
Role type
Director of Developer Experience and Infrastructure Platform
Builds
Developer tooling (local workflows, AI coding assistants, CI/CD), service platform infrastructure, and AI-driven guardrails for a fintech company.
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure / AI Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Organizational change management, Kubernetes (k8s), ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude), cloud architecture, executive communication, team leadership, metrics definition.
Preferred skills
Building internal custom AI tooling, fine-tuning models for coding tasks, RAG pipelines, fintech domain experience.
Technologies
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, AWS, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude
Responsibilities
Own strategy and roadmap for AI-augmented developer platform; drive company-wide change management to standardize build/ship processes; lead and develop engineering teams; scale developer experience with agentic workflows; optimize local developer environments; collaborate cross-functionally with CTO and architects; define and track developer experience metrics.
Seniority
Director, hands-on technical leader with organizational scope