Zipline

SaaS

SeniorBackendSoftwareEngineer,DevEx

£72–88k Abingdon, United Kingdom FULL TIME
The Brief

“Senior Backend Software Engineer, DevEx at Zipline. Skills: Backend Software Engineering, DevEx, CI/CD, AI tooling. Assess and evolve engineering practices. Strengthen CI/CD quality gates”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate engineering velocity; Build the best possible product, faster; Engineers ship faster and with more confidence; Improve reliability; Reduce manual operational burden; Reduce toil

Industry & Context.

SaaS
Eligibility Requirements

Participate in on-call rotations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of engineering experience, at least 5 years in DevEx, DevOps or infrastructure with a developer productivity focus, CI/CD pipeline experience, Hands-on experience with AI-assisted developer tooling, Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, managing containerized environments, cloud infrastructure via Terraform, Familiarity with SAST/SCA security scanning, understanding of observability tools, Proficiency in Python, Go, Ruby for building internal tooling, Awareness of DORA metrics, developer experience frameworks, pragmatic build-vs-buy mindset, Excellent communication skills

Nice to Have

experience with Ruby on Rails

What You'll Do.

Assess and evolve engineering practices

Strengthen CI/CD quality gates

Build visibility into engineering health

Explore and embed AI-powered tooling

Streamline local development

Manage and optimize containerized infrastructure

Partner with teams to embed quality practices

Evolve platform toward structured tooling

Participate in on-call rotations

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Platform and product engineering teams; Co-develop a prioritized QE roadmap with engineering leads; Partner with teams across engineering; Work with kind, collaborative teammates

Communication Scope

Excellent communication skills

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