Senior Backend Engineer - (Productivity)- GEXL

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Developer Productivity Engineer to join our team. As part of this role, you will be responsible for enabling our development teams to operate efficiently by optimizing tools, systems, and workflows. This position focuses on improving developer productivity, integrating AI tooling, and streamlining test systems to support high-quality, scalable software development processes. You will collaborate across teams to provide innovative solutions that enhance the developer experience, reduce friction, and increase the velocity of delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain cutting-edge developer tools and automate processes to streamline workflows, reduce repetitive tasks, and improve code quality.
• Research, evaluate, and integrate AI-based tools and frameworks to optimize the development process, from code generation and debugging to automated testing.
• Optimize our test system tooling, ensuring scalability, reliability, and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Enhance continuous integration and deployment processes by optimizing pipelines, reducing feedback times, and ensuring high availability of CI systems.
• Work closely with development, QA, and DevOps teams to understand pain points and requirements, proactively delivering solutions that improve efficiency.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in build processes, test execution, and CI/CD workflows to foster a frictionless development cycle.
• Create robust automation solutions for repetitive coding, testing, and deployment tasks, enabling developers to focus on building great products.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in developer tooling, test systems, and AI technologies, incorporating them into the workflow where relevant.

The ideal candidate will have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development or developer tooling roles.
• Expertise in modern developer productivity tooling, such as CI/CD systems, artifact management and workflow automation.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go, and comfortable with scripting languages for automation tasks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for scalable and consistent development environments.
• Strong understanding of version control systems, including Git, branching strategies, and repository workflows.
• Solid problem-solving and debugging skills, with the ability to triage and resolve complex systems issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and delivery of solutions.
• Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills to work with international teams.