Head of Developer Experience & Platform Engineering

Motion Recruitment; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Waltham, MA is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to build and lead a newly formed Developer Experience team onsite with a hybrid schedule. The role combines people leadership with deep technical expertise across Backend Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, and AI-driven developer productivity initiatives.

You will establish the vision, culture, and technical direction for the DevEx organization, mentor engineers, and collaborate with distributed teams

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and strategy.
• Strong backend and platform engineering background.
• Familiarity with AI-driven tooling and developer productivity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Developer Experience team, setting direction and culture.
• Mentor engineers and support professional development.
• Improve developer productivity across the software lifecycle.
• Introduce AI and automation into design, coding, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Identify bottlenecks and create scalable self-service tools.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, build systems, testing, and observability.
• Coordinate with Israel DevEx group on standards and strategy.
• Lead initiatives from planning through production.

Skills

Backend Engineering

DevOps

People leadership

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-Code

AI-enabled tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Distributed teams

Tools

Maven

Gradle

Nx

Job description

Motion Recruitment in Waltham, MA is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to build and lead a newly formed Developer Experience team onsite with a hybrid schedule. The role combines people leadership with deep technical expertise across Backend Engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, and AI-driven developer productivity initiatives.

You will establish the vision, culture, and technical direction for the DevEx organization, mentor engineers, and collaborate with distributed teams