Director of Software Development, Developer Experience
RemoteUnited Kingdom or Skopje, Grad Skopje, North Macedonia
Job Summary
Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for the internal developer platform, infrastructure, CI/CD systems, engineering tooling, and cloud platform. Remove friction from the software development lifecycle, improve developer productivity, and ensure the platform scales alongside the business. Partner with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Engineering leadership to define technical strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver capabilities that enable teams to move faster. Provide technical direction, make architectural decisions, and coach engineering managers and senior engineers. This role balances technical leadership, people management, and organizational influence within a remote-first, globally distributed organization spanning North America, the UK, and Eastern Europe. You will help build an environment where engineers continuously improve the systems powering Slice, leveraging cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and AWS.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams or engineering managers in a fast-growing technology organisation
- Strong technical background in backend systems, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering, with the credibility to influence architectural decisions
- Experience building and scaling internal developer platforms, engineering tooling or infrastructure organisations
- Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and modern CI/CD practices
- Experience defining engineering strategy, setting technical direction and successfully delivering large cross-functional initiatives
- Passion for improving developer productivity through automation, standardisation and self-service platforms
- Excellent coaching and mentoring skills with a track record of growing engineering managers and senior technical talent
- Comfortable working in a remote-first, globally distributed organisation
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across engineering, product and executive leadership
- Data-driven approach to measuring engineering effectiveness through metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time, reliability and developer satisfaction
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