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Director of Software Development, Developer Experience

Belfast, Northern Ireland🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the Developer Experience organization to build, test, deploy, and operate software efficiently for hundreds of engineers, focusing on internal developer platforms, infrastructure, and CI/CD systems.

Role type

Director of Software Development (Developer Experience)

Builds

Internal developer platform, infrastructure, CI/CD systems, engineering tooling, and cloud platform

Domain

Cloud-native platform engineering and developer productivity

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Leading multiple engineering teams, backend systems architecture, scaling internal developer platforms, cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, AWS, Docker), engineering strategy definition, automation and standardization, coaching engineering managers, data-driven metrics analysis

Preferred skills

Experience in fast-growing technology organizations, cross-functional initiative delivery, remote-first global organization experience

Technologies

Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Define technical strategy and prioritize investments for the developer platform, coach engineering managers and senior engineers, partner with Product and Security leadership, remove friction from the software development lifecycle, measure engineering effectiveness through metrics

Seniority

Director, hands-on leadership with people management

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