Director of Software Development (Developer Experience)

Join Slice, a fast-growing technology company, as the Director of Software Development (Developer Experience). In this role, you will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for our internal developer platform, infrastructure, CI/CD systems, engineering tooling, and cloud platform. Your mission will be to remove friction from the software development lifecycle, improve developer productivity, and ensure our platform can scale alongside the business. You will partner closely with Product, Security, Infrastructure, Engineering leadership, and developers across the company to define technical strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver platform capabilities that enable teams to move faster without compromising reliability or security.

• Lead and manage multiple engineering teams responsible for the internal developer platform, infrastructure, CI/CD systems, engineering tooling, and cloud platform.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, Infrastructure, Engineering leadership, and developers to define technical strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver platform capabilities.
• Provide technical direction, make architectural decisions, coach engineering managers and senior engineers, and help shape the future of the engineering organization.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across engineering, product and executive leadership
• Experience building and scaling internal developer platforms, engineering tooling or infrastructure organisations
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills with a track record of growing engineering managers and senior technical talent
• Data-driven approach to measuring engineering effectiveness through metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time, reliability and developer satisfaction
• Passion for improving developer productivity through automation, standardisation and self-service platforms
• Comfortable working in a remote-first, globally distributed organisation
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams or engineering managers in a fast-growing technology organisation
• Experience defining engineering strategy, setting technical direction and successfully delivering large cross-functional initiatives
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and modern CI/CD practices
• Strong technical background in backend systems, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering, with the credibility to influence architectural decisions