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

The role

You will lead the Developer Experience platform engineering team to provide a fast and safe path to production for engineers and AI agents. You will own the golden path, CI/CD, self-service environments, the developer CLI, and the Service Registry.

What you will do

• Own the golden path including deployment templates, CI/CD patterns, and onboarding flows.
• Provide engineers and AI agents one delivery path using the same golden path, developer CLI, and gate workflows.
• Connect the agentic framework's build and release steps to the golden path and platform checks.
• Measure developer experience with golden path adoption, deployment lead time, and time to first deploy.
• Own hiring, the technical bar, and the team culture.
• Write code, review designs, and make architecture decisions.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering
• At least 3 years managing engineers directly
• Strong Python
• Built a golden path, an internal developer platform, or a CI/CD system
• Deep, hands-on ECS and/or Kubernetes experience with cluster APIs, namespaces, RBAC, admission control, and deployment patterns
• Can read a Helm chart, write an admission webhook, and debug a GitHub Actions runner
• Uses AI coding agents every day for real delivery work
• Can name engineers you hired or developed
• Can read a stack trace and a build log to identify configuration issues or code bugs
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Go is a strong plus
• Experience building an agentic delivery workflow is a strong plus
• Fintech or other regulated-environment experience is a strong plus
• Familiarity with Node.js is a plus

Benefits

• Founding role in a function Pliant is investing in heavily
• High-impact ownership of processes and workflows
• Fast-moving, product-led organisation
• Highly international, flat, and collaborative team environment
• Competitive compensation and equity package
• Flexible work setup (remote, hybrid, or Berlin office)
• Monthly mobility allowance
• Wellhub membership
• Company card with a lunch/coffee budget

About the company

Pliant is a modular B2B payments platform combining commercial card issuing, payment accounts, FX and spend management for businesses and AI agents. Headquartered in Berlin, it serves businesses and partners across Europe and North America.