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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** developrec
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Release Automation, CMake, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Github, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Delivery Pipeline, Build Tools, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/software-engineer/develop-job107818314

## About the Role

The develop team are keen to speak with engineers who have a genuine passion for Developer Experience, Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platforms.

You'll likely bring:

 * Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production-grade systems
 * Experience designing and scaling developer tooling, build systems or engineering platforms
 * Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle from development through to deployment and operations
 * Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar platforms
 * Experience working with containerised development environments using technologies such as Docker
 * Exposure to modern build systems and tooling including Bazel, CMake, Ninja, Poetry or comparable technologies
 * Strong programming ability across both scripting and compiled languages
 * A track record of delivering measurable productivity improvements through tooling, automation and platform enhancements
 * The ability to influence stakeholders and drive technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams

## Description

As a senior member of the Developer Experience function, you'll focus on removing friction from the development process and enabling engineering teams to move faster with greater confidence.

You'll be responsible for designing and building the tooling, infrastructure and workflows that support developers from local development environments through to production deployment.

This is a highly visible role where your work will directly influence engineering productivity across multiple teams, products and regions.

What You'll Be Doing

 * Designing and maintaining scalable build platforms and shared engineering tooling used across the organisation
 * Building and improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and release automation
 * Creating developer tooling including CLI applications, IDE integrations and containerised development environments
 * Driving improvements to build performance, test reliability and deployment speed
 * Partnering closely with software engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and streamline developer workflows
 * Defining and implementing meaningful engineering productivity metrics
 * Exploring emerging AI-assisted development technologies and integrating them into daily engineering practices where appropriate
 * Influencing engineering standards, tooling strategy and developer productivity initiatives across the wider business


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