At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and improve developer experiences with Java, Kotlin, or Node.js in a collaborative environment.
- Company: Join a leading tech firm focused on innovation and developer advocacy.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with a focus on automation and standardisation for large-scale projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing developer onboarding and experience across teams.
- Qualifications: Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or Node.js; strong communication and engineering skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Job Type: Contract
Work Mode: Onsite (Client)
Responsibilities
- Proficiency in Java, Kotlin or Node.js
- Strong communicator to all levels of seniority
- Solid understanding of production readiness fundamentals: security, resilience, observability, and supportability, sufficient to build credible examples and guidance
- Strong hands-on engineering experience delivering production-grade systems; experience delivering app platforms is a plus but not necessary
- Practical experience improving developer experience via standardisation, automation, and making the easy thing the right thing
- Comfortable working across teams (product, engineering, architecture, risk/end-control) to make guidance accurate and usable
1. Build adoption accelerators (Golden Path delivery)
- Produce worked examples from real projects (not toy apps) designed to double as reusable accelerators and adoption media
- Contribute code pipelines and automation that reduce friction in onboarding and repeatable delivery
2. Self-service onboarding at scale, no white-glove by default
- Improve self-service onboarding journeys so teams can progress without hand-holding; the org is too large for heavy hand-holding, self-serve must work from day 1.
- Create and maintain onboarding guides, operational guidance and run-book-style content that helps teams reach production confidently
- Help reduce bespoke onboarding by standardising workflows and improving automation
3. Developer experience advocacy – actionable, not advisory
- Participate in feedback channels: office hours, champions networks, team-mail-in-app ratings where available
- Triage issues and pain points into items that DevRel can build/fix directly and items to be driven to the owning pillar team with clear acceptance criteria
- Track to closure; DevRel ensures the right team is engaged and progress is visible
4. Documentation as a core deliverable
- Write and maintain high-quality documentation content for our platform docs, including onboarding how-to’s, troubleshooting and reference material
- Ensure new/updated assets ship with documentation as part of Definition of Done and release readiness expectations
- Keep content fresh and discoverable; propose improvements to doc structure, navigation and time-to-answer
5. Developer enablement and narrative support – delivery-focused
- Support internal communications and technical engagement: short talks, show-and-tells, workshops, mob programming sessions
- Help maintain clear adoption pathways and migration guidance in partnership with product, engineering, architecture
- Contribute to communications that make developers confident about what exists, what’s coming and how to get value quickly
Skills
- Mandatory Skills: Automation, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Software Engineering and Design Architecture
Senior DevRel Engineer Application Platforms in Sheffield employer: TESTQ Technologies Limited
TESTQ Technologies Limited is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, perfect for those passionate about cloud technologies. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, we offer mentorship opportunities and hands-on projects that empower our team to excel in their careers. Located in a vibrant tech hub, our company provides a dynamic environment where creativity thrives, making it an ideal place for professionals looking to make a meaningful impact.
Contact Details:
TESTQ Technologies Limited Recruitment Team
