Developer Experience Team Leader (w/m)

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Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
As the Developer Experience Team Leader, you will enhance and standardize the developer experience toolset by leading a team of engineers, modernizing the internal development platform, and promoting best practices across the organization. Your role also includes vendor management and fostering a collaborative environment for team growth and development.
Summary Generated by Built In

Take a step forward and let Edenred surprise you.

Every day, we deliver innovative solutions to improve the life of millions of people, connecting employees, companies, and merchants all around the world. 

We know there are hundred ways for you to grow. With us, you will expand your skills in a multicultural, challenging, and dynamic environment. 

Dare to join Edenred and get ready to thrive in a global company that will offer you endless opportunities.

Edenred is all about meritocracy. You come as you are, and you contribute. Indeed, the Edenred Group recognizes, recruits and develops all talents and singularities.

We are committed to preventing all forms of discrimination and to providing all our candidates with equal opportunities regardless of their gender and gender expression, disability, origin, religious belief and sexual orientation or any other criteria.

We are seeking a highly motivated Developer Experience Team Leader to join our Global Technology Architecture department. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing, modernizing and standardizing our developer experience toolset 

The capability vision in this area 

  • To make developers more autonomous via self-service environment provisioning 

  • To offer preconfigured development environments with essential tools and libraries 

  • To streamline code management and collaboration  

  • To automate build and deployment across environments 

  • To provide observability tools (tracing, logging and monitoring) to diagnose issues quickly 

  • To integrate security best practices with tools for code scanning, vulnerability assessment and secrets management 

You will lead a small team of engineers responsible for making this vision a reality by implementing tools, standardizing patterns for their sustainable adoption and evangelizing that adoption throughout the org. This leadership role requires strong technical expertise, coupled with exceptional communication and collaboration skills to foster developer adoption and ensure the new toolset aligns with the needs of our developers. The mission is to contribute to safe, secure and rapid delivery of value to our users by enabling a more productive and compelling developer experience. 

 

YOUR ROLE

1. Team Leadership 

  • Lead a team of Engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining modern internal development platform. 

  • Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, motivating and mentoring team members towards professional development

  • Delegate tasks effectively, ensuring project timelines and deliverables are met. 

  • Conduct performance reviews and provide career development opportunities for team members. 

 

2. Modernization and Standardization 

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for modernizing and standardizing the developer experience toolchain and practices across the organization. 

  • Work with the organization to define the right tools to standardize on 

  • Define best practices and efficient adoption patterns for the chosen tools, ensuring widespread developer uptake. 

  • Design and develop an internal developer platform (IDP) that provides developers with self-service access to tools, resources, and infrastructure. 

  • Evangelize, promote and drive implementation of the DevEx toolchain across various development projects, while remaining open and responsive to feedback  

 

3. Vendor Management 

  • Foster healthy partner relationships with DevEx tool vendors. 

  • Evaluate and select tools that best suit the organization's needs. 

  • Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships to ensure ongoing support and integration. 

  • Stay up-to-date on the latest technology trends in DevEx, identifying new tools and solutions that can benefit the developer organization. 

 

4. Developer Evangelism 

  • Develop a comprehensive developer outreach and communication strategy to promote the DevEx tools and practices. 

  • Collaborate with development teams across the organization to understand their needs and pain points and reflect these back into roadmap thinking. 

  • Deliver training sessions and workshops to educate developers on the benefits and functionalities of the new toolset. 

  • Actively solicit feedback from developers and continuously iterate on the toolset based on their inputs. 

  • Champion developer experience by ensuring DevEx practices are efficient and user-friendly. 

 

5. Measuring Engineering Efficiency 

  • Implement and track DORA metrics to measure and improve engineering efficiency. 

  • Analyze engineering data to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in the development lifecycle. 

  • Develop and implement strategies to continuously optimize developer workflows and reduce delivery times. 

 

6. Additional Responsibilities 

  • Stay abreast of the latest trends and best practices in Developer experience, internal development platforms, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, observability, and testing automation. 

  • Collaborate with other teams within Technology, including Architecture, Security, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure Management. 

  • Document processes and procedures for platform engineering and DevOps practices. 

  • Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to optimize platform performance and developer productivity. 

 

YOUR PROFILE 

Must haves

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in Software and/or Platform Engineering, with deep exposure to and passion for DevEx tools 

  • Strong knowledge of the Azure (and ideally also AWS) public cloud, from the perspective of DevEx tooling and software engineering productivity.  

  • Proven track record of leading and motivating high-performing engineering teams. 

  • Demonstrated experience in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. 

  • Strong understanding of observability principles and experience with monitoring and logging tools. 

  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills. 

  • Ability to effectively manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize tasks. 

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

  • Passion for developer experience and a desire to empower development teams. 

 

Nice-to-haves

  • Familiarity with security testing automation tools and practices. 

  • Experience in designing and developing internal developer platforms. 

  • Experience working in a large, fast-paced fintech environment. 

  • Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.  

 

OUR OFFER

  • Competitive salary and benefits package. 

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and shape the future of DevEx within a leading fintech organization. 

  • Collaborative and supportive work environment. 

  • Opportunity for professional development and growth. 

Apply now and Vibe with Us!

The Company
Waltham, Massachusetts
7,105 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments and the everyday companion for people at work, connecting 60 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients.

Edenred offers specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), incentives (such as gift cards, employee engagement platforms), mobility (such as multi-energy, maintenance, toll, parking and commuter solutions) and corporate payments (such as virtual cards).

True to the Group’s purpose, “Enrich connections. For good.”, these solutions enhance users’ well-being and purchasing power. They improve companies’ attractiveness and efficiency, and vitalize the employment market and the local economy. They also foster access to healthier food, more environmentally friendly products and softer mobility.

Edenred’s 12,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient and more responsible every day.

In 2022, thanks to its global technology assets, the Group managed some €38 billion in business volume, primarily carried out via mobile applications, online platforms and cards.

Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices: CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, CAC Large 60, Euronext 100, Euronext Tech Leaders, FTSE4Good and MSCI Europe.

Our employees vibe with a passion for customer service, respect, imagination, simplicity and the entrepreneurial spirit that are Edenred’s values. For everyone who wants to experience that vibe, who needs it in their professional life, we want to be the best company to come and work and develop each person who takes part in the Edenred adventure

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