Technical Lead (DevEx)
Arbor Education
- Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
- Saint Paul, Illinois, United States
Über
Location:
Remote
Salary:
£90,000 - £100,000
About the role We are looking for an experienced and proactive Technical Lead – Developer Experience to join our DevEx team and help us drive our new AI‑first engineering shift by taking ownership of the internal developer journey, tooling, and documentation to ensure maximum engineering productivity and satisfaction. The remit and focus of the role is to blend deep technical expertise with leadership, requiring you to champion the integration of AI and generative AI tools into our workflows, mentor and coach engineers, embed a culture of developer‑centric quality, and guide the team in making sound technical decisions related to the development life‑cycle.
Core responsibilities
Developer Tooling Architecture & Agentic AI Integration:
Define and guide the architecture of internal developer tools and services, specifically assessing, integrating, and maintaining AI‑powered tools (eg, agents, agentic environments, coding assistants, diagnostic tools), balancing trade‑offs between speed of development, reliability, and maintainability to meet engineering efficiency goals
Agentic‑First Engineering Standards:
Own and evolve the organisation’s agentic AI working practices across R&D—defining standard skills, instructions, agent configurations, and interaction patterns that enable every engineer to work effectively with AI tooling. Establish and maintain an agentic‑first SDLC framework, setting clear expectations for how AI agents are incorporated into code authoring, review, testing, documentation, and deployment workflows. Act as the organisation’s thought leader on the future of agentic AI in software engineering, continuously scanning the landscape, running experiments, and translating emerging capabilities into practical, adopted standards
Developer Productivity and Flow:
Champion developer productivity by identifying and addressing pain points in the development lifecycle. Measure key internal metrics (e.g. build times, deployment cycle time) and drive continuous improvement in developer workflows and tooling
Automation and Onboarding:
Drive automation initiatives, leveraging agentic AI and machine learning techniques, across the team to streamline developer onboarding, reduce cognitive load, and eliminate development environment toil
Technical Standards & Documentation:
Define and uphold developer experience standards, promote clear documentation, and work with teams to ensure seamless adoption of new technologies and best practices. Ensure production readiness standards for all services
Planning and Delivery:
Lead technical estimation and feasibility assessments for DX initiatives, ensuring plans are realistic and aligned with team capacity. Contribute to structured release planning and support post‑release reviews
Mentorship and Coaching:
Mentor and coach engineers through constructive feedback, knowledge sharing, and motivation. Foster alignment and help the team galvanise around technical solutions and goals
Collaboration and Feedback:
Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and other engineers to gather feedback, understand developer pain points, and align technical direction with product strategy. Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
Requirements
Experience:
Considerable experience in Developer Relations, Developer Productivity, or building internal tooling on complex systems
AI/Machine Learning in DX:
Proven experience integrating and leveraging AI, machine learning, or generative AI tools (eg, Cursor, Claude Code, Coder) to significantly improve developer workflows, accelerate feature delivery, and increase overall engineering efficiency
Cloud Systems:
Extensive expertise with AWS and distributed cloud architectures for building developer‑facing services
Developer Workflow Optimisation:
Proven experience with measuring and optimizing engineering efficiency metrics and reducing deployment friction
Infrastructure as Code:
Advanced proficiency with Terraform and configuration management tools for managing developer environments
Scripting:
Strong skills in Python, Go, or a similar language for automation and tooling
Programming:
Experience in PHP, or another language; preferably in a significantly sized Object‑Oriented codebase
Observability:
Deep experience with monitoring and observability platforms (eg, DataDog or equivalent), focusing on gathering insights into developer friction points and incident/problem management
System Design:
Expert understanding of distributed systems and microservices and how to apply resilience patterns to internal tools
Tooling:
Hands‑on experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS) for creating standardized development environments
CI/CD:
Practical experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to ensure a smooth deployment experience for other engineers
Leadership:
Demonstrated ability in mentoring and supporting the growth of fellow engineers, experience organising and driving team workstreams
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 3× 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 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
Interview process Phone screen → 1st stage → 2nd stage
We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process and will make reasonable adjustments where needed. If you require any adjustments during your application or interview process please contact us at careers@arbor-education.com.
Equal opportunities Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, giving them the tools they need to thrive. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and support and promote diversity and equality.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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