Staff AI Developer Productivity Engineer

Equals Money • Pipe Creek, TX

78d

About The Position

This is a staff-level, hands-on role at the intersection of Developer Productivity, Developer Experience (DevEx) and AI. You’ll accelerate a 100+ engineer organisation by identifying bottlenecks across the developer lifecycle and build and ship internal tools that measurably improve delivery speed and quality. You’ll operate with an AI-first mindset: rapidly experiment with cutting-edge AI technologies and agentic flows to see what’s possible today, map the frontier and forecast capabilities likely to become viable in the next 3-6 months. When AI isn’t the right fit, you’ll pragmatically fall back to conventional solutions. You’ll self-manage discovery, roadmap and backlog; run short, data-driven trials and productionise solutions which work. You’ll partner closely with Engineering and DevOps teams to ensure changes integrate cleanly into existing workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering with a track record of building internal developer tooling/DevEx (CLI/IDE plugins, bots, internal services or web apps).
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js, C#/.NET and front-end experience with React/Next.js.
• Hands-on LLM integration: prompting, tool/function calling, retrieval (embeddings/vector stores) and basic evaluation of quality.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, test strategy and code-quality tooling; able to design fast inner loops and reliable pipelines.
• Product mindset: discovery interviews, hypothesis-driven experiments, before/after evaluation and clear business cases.
• Excellent communication and influence skills; comfortable enabling teams via docs, workshops and remote office hours.

Nice To Haves

• Experience administering/rolling out AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor) and code search.
• Familiarity with structured/agentic AI workflow frameworks for multi-step tasks.
• Observability for developer platforms (metrics, tracing, dashboards) and performance tuning of AI workloads.
• Evaluation techniques for LLM output quality (human-in-the-loop, rubric scoring, golden datasets).
• Experience with GitHub, Slack, Notion and Retool.
• Background in fintech/payments or other regulated domains.

Responsibilities

• AI-first discovery & roadmap - Interview engineers, analyse telemetry and prioritise the highest-leverage opportunities across coding, review, testing, releases and knowledge flows. Set baselines and target deltas and maintain a transparent backlog/roadmap grounded in measurable outcomes.
• Ship internal tools - Build and maintain AI-augmented dev tools across IDE/CLI, GitHub, Slack, Notion, Retool and internal web apps that reduce manual effort and cycle time.
• Agentic flows across the SDLC - Design structured, agentic workflows (including MCP and tool-use with human-in-the-loop gates) to improve code authoring/review, test creation/selection and the release, incident response and onboarding processes.
• Frontier scouting & evaluation - Continuously experiment with cutting-edge AI models, frameworks and runtimes; run short, hypothesis-driven pilots with clear success criteria and developer-fit assessments; productionise successful approaches.
• Automation pipelines - Implement LLM-assisted and AST-based code-mod workflows for migrations, boilerplate generation, test creation and docs updates.
• Enablement & change management - Drive adoption with playbooks, golden prompts, demos, office hours and a champions network across build teams; measure usage and satisfaction and iterate.

Benefits

• A competitive salary benchmarked against a peer group.
• 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off.
• Opportunities for progression, development and learning new skills - £250 towards the cost of learning & development.
• Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool (London) and discounted gym membership elsewhere.
• GetActive with Aviva - Health and Wellbeing discounts on services and products.
• Interbank currency rates on travel money and international transfers.
• Bupa Private Healthcare.
• Free Eye Test and £50 up to the cost of glasses.
• EAP Service - Mental Health Services.
• Life Assurance Policy - x3 annual salary.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Season Ticket Loans.
• Enhanced Parental Policies.
• Complimentary tea, coffee, soft drinks and fruit.
• We operate a hybrid working arrangement where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees