Engineering Manager - Developer Experience *EU/UK remote* (m/f/d)

Responsibilities

• You use AI-assisted coding tools every day. Claude Code, Cursor, or something equivalent. Not occasionally. You know how to coach engineers who haven't made the shift yet, and you're the one who sets the bar for how the team uses them. Pliant is investing heavily in AI tooling and your team will own the company's AI…
• Own the golden path
• Build and maintain deployment templates, opinionated CI/CD patterns on top of our Kubernetes cluster APIs, production readiness checklists, and onboarding flows that get a new service to production without filing a support ticket.
• Own developer satisfaction as a metric: Track golden path adoption rate, deployment lead time, and time-to-first-deploy for new services. When engineers route around the platform, that is your problem to diagnose and fix.
• Standardise AI-assisted development tooling
• Lead the team building the AI harness that standardises the usage of assisted development tools across the company, including Claude Code, Cursor, and others.
• Build the team from zero
• Own hiring, culture, and the technical bar from the very first hire. The people you bring in first define what this team becomes, and you know that.

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