Engineering Manager, Developer Experience — Remote EU/UK

Pliant; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive remuneration

OS choice: Windows or Mac

Flat hierarchy

Remote work option

Monthly mobility benefit

Wellhub Membership

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Job summary

Pliant is seeking an Engineering Manager - Developer Experience to define and lead a brand-new DX platform engineering team. You will be the first hire, defining what great looks like, owning the golden path, and ensuring productive day-one onboarding and autonomous day-two evolution.

You will code hands-on initially, review designs, and make architectural calls, with leadership responsibilities growing as the team matures. A fintech context and AI tooling are core.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience with Python, incl. 2+ years in leadership/management. Go experience a strong plus.
• Hands-on CI/CD and internal developer portals, able to read Helm charts, write an admission webhook, debug GitHub Actions.
• Deep Kubernetes platform experience: cluster APIs, namespaces, RBAC, admission control, deployment patterns.
• Product mindset for internal tooling; avoid building for bypass; shipped internal tooling chosen over workarounds.
• Experience hiring engineers; at least one successful hire; security‑first thinking (shift left). Fintech/regulatory exposure (PCI DSS/SOC2) a plus.
• Product teams use Java/Kotlin; you may read stack traces, follow build logs, distinguish config issues from bugs; JVM exposure optional.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Use AI-assisted coding tools daily and coach engineers on adoption; own the AI harness.
• Own the golden path: deployment templates, CI/CD patterns on Kubernetes APIs, onboarding flows to production.
• Own developer satisfaction metrics: measure adoption, deployment lead time, time-to-first-deploy; diagnose gaps.
• Standardize AI-assisted dev tooling across the company; lead building the AI harness.
• Build the team from zero: hire, set culture and technical bar; first hires define team direction.

Tools

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Spacelift

GitHub Actions

Helm

Datadog

Java

Kotlin

Job description

Pliant is seeking an Engineering Manager - Developer Experience to define and lead a brand-new DX platform engineering team. You will be the first hire, defining what great looks like, owning the golden path, and ensuring productive day-one onboarding and autonomous day-two evolution.

You will code hands-on initially, review designs, and make architectural calls, with leadership responsibilities growing as the team matures. A fintech context and AI tooling are core.