16 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of complex Developer Experience services across Backstage, golden path templates, engineering metrics, DORA instrumentation, and AI-assisted developer tooling.
- Own the architecture, technical decisions, scalability, and engineering quality of key internal developer platform components.
- Design and evolve Backstage plugins, scaffolder templates, catalogue integrations, TechDocs, and developer portal experiences.
- Define and maintain golden path templates with current best practices, service archetypes, security, observability, and CI/CD defaults.
- Design DORA and developer productivity instrumentation to surface deployment and collaboration signals to engineering management.
- Integrate agentic AI capabilities using GitHub Copilot, MCP servers, Claude workflows, and related tooling.
- Evaluate AI tools, define reliable usage patterns, and contribute to evaluation frameworks and guardrails for AI-assisted engineering.
- Set technical direction, shape the roadmap, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with platform, application, security, product, Release Engineering, Developer Infrastructure, and OCTO teams to improve developer workflows.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering production-grade software in a platform, Developer Experience, or internal developer platform team.
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and/or C#/.NET, Node.js, or Go, with the ability to write performant production-ready code.
- Proven Git experience, including branching strategies, pull request workflows, and high-quality code reviews.
- Experience with Backstage or a comparable internal developer portal; catalogue modelling, plugin development, scaffolder templates, or TechDocs experience is advantageous.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, modern software delivery practices, golden paths, and developer onboarding.
- Confidence with Docker, GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines, and Azure platform fundamentals.
- Experience building and maintaining React and component-based frontend applications.
- Hands-on experience using agentic AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent in engineering workflows.
- Track record of setting technical direction, making architecture decisions, and delivering shared platforms used by multiple product teams.
- Experience mentoring engineers, running code reviews, collaborating across technical domains, and explaining technical decisions clearly.
- Preferred experience includes MCP server integration, LLM tool-use patterns, AI-assisted developer workflows, DORA metrics, developer productivity instrumentation, DevEx research, CLI tooling, documentation pipelines, service catalogue governance, and AI evaluation or guardrail design.
Benefits
- At least two days per week in the London office.
- Employee discount and access to employee sample sales.
- 25 days of paid annual leave plus an additional celebration day.
- Private medical care scheme.
- Flexible benefits allowance, usable as extra cash or toward other benefits.
- Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry-leading events.
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About ASOS
ASOS is a global online fashion and beauty retailer for 20‑somethings, selling own‑brand and third‑party labels via its website and mobile apps. The company earns revenue from direct‑to‑consumer e‑commerce, shipping to customers worldwide and offering marketplace services for brands. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, ASOS is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and runs in‑house content and fulfillment operations at scale.