Senior DevRel Engineer Application Platforms
4 hours ago
Sheffield
Job Type: Contract Work Mode: Onsite (Client) • 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 Mandatory Skills: Automation, Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Software Engineering and Design Architecture #J-18808-Ljbffr