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Engineering Manager - DevEx

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AdoptionBusinessDatabasesHoneycombPersonal BoundariesPreventionPython
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • At least three years of experience managing internal tooling or DevEx teams
  • Strong software engineering experience preferably in Python environments
  • Experience treating internal tools as products with surveys adoption metrics and roadmaps
  • Demonstrable people management experience including coaching performance evaluation mentorship and career development
  • Relevant project management experience with prioritisation schedules deadlines and cross-functional communication
  • Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD systems and the tradeoffs between speed reliability and cost
  • Experience with developer productivity tooling such as local environments build systems IDE tooling dependency management and observability
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerised deployments in deployment pipelines
  • Familiarity with DORA metrics the SPACE framework or DX Core 4 and a clear view of what to measure and not measure
  • Timezone aligned to GMT-1 to GMT+3 or willingness to align hours
  • Willingness to travel to Africa annually for about one week
  • Work authorization and reliable internet access

Nice to have

  • Mission driven
  • Simple architecture mindset
  • Collaborative
  • Tenacious
  • Reliability focused
  • Product minded

Day to day

  • Lead the Developer Experience team to improve the tools and processes engineers use to ship value quickly and reliably
  • Treat the developer platform as a product for internal customers by running surveys measuring adoption and prioritising improvements by impact
  • Shape the end-to-end development process from local coding to safe production releases across multiple countries
  • Pragmatically assess AI-assisted development opportunities and introduce them only when they clearly reduce toil or improve quality

Hiring process

  • Fill out the form below
  • Upload a resume in English
  • Upload a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role