Developer Experience Engineer, Pion
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Marketing & growth platform
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Marketing & growth platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help brands grow without giving up control.
Role
Who you are
- We're not looking for someone who ticks every box — we're looking for someone curious, thoughtful, and keen to grow in a DevX or platform engineering direction
- Have some hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Are comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment and writing shell scripts or basic automation
- Have worked with at least one backend language (we're primarily TypeScript/Node.js but we care more about transferable skills than specifics)
- Understand the basics of version control workflows — branching, MRs, code review
- Are genuinely interested in the developer experience problem: you've felt friction in your own workflow and you want to fix it for others
- Communicate clearly and aren't afraid to ask questions or flag when something doesn't make sense
Desirable
- Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar)
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, Copilot) and their configuration
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code or container-based workflows
- Experience contributing to internal tooling, shared libraries, or developer platforms
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Junior- Mid DevX Engineer to join our growing Developer Experience team at Pion
- This is a rare opportunity to help shape the tools, pipelines, and practices that every engineer at Pion depends on to do their best work
- You will build and maintain the internal tooling that powers our product engineering teams — from CI/CD pipelines and golden path templates to developer onboarding and AI tooling configuration
- No two days look the same: you might be auditing repositories for AI config compliance in the morning and pairing with a product engineer to debug a flaky pipeline in the afternoon
- This role sits at the intersection of engineering craft and developer empathy
- You'll be part of a small, high-trust team with real ownership and direct visibility from engineering leadership
- As we grow, so will your responsibilities — this is a role with a clear path upward
- Help instrument CI/CD metrics and contribute to our DevX health dashboard
- Work on standardising AI tooling configs (Claude/Cursor rules, MCP server configs, Windsurf) across all of our repositories
- Maintain and improve our golden path service templates
- Triage and respond to developer support requests from platform, product or data engineers
- Contribute to our onboarding documentation and local environment setup tooling
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded as Student Beans in 2005, Pion is a marketing company that helps brands expand their customer base and enhance sales. It specialises in helping clients build trust and relevancy among students and Gen Z, as well as other strategic consumer groups.
Pion's solutions deliver insights, advertising and customer verification. This enables clients to make informed business decisions, deliver engaging campaigns and grow sales through gated offers. This cohesive approach, within a niche consumer target group, is certainly the stand-out feature of the company.
The company's rebrand to Pion came alongside an expansion beyond just the student market to encompass youth markets in general. This enables it to consolidate its diverse portfolio of services and continue its path of growth, which has already seen it become a prominent player in the space.
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Company benefits
- Flexi time: Start between 8-10am and finish between 4:30-6:30pm
- Volunteer days: Two days a year to volunteer with a charity of your choice, because we believe in giving back
- Remote & hybrid working: With access to offices in London and Manchester
- Health cash plan: Claim back cash on a huge range of healthcare and wellness treatments
- 30 days holiday: 30 days of annual leave, plus public holidays
- Work with an industry leading tech stack: We work with relevant, market leading tools to maximise your ability in your role
- Wellness allowance or PureGym membership: A monthly wellness allowance or access to the gym, we take your wellbeing seriously!
- Access to all of our student discounts: Incredible partnership discounts for the biggest brands in the world
- Regular social events – virtual and in-person: Even though we're remote first, we make sure you can still connect regularly with your colleagues
Company values
- Speed Wins
- Be Humble
- We’re all Accountable
- Deliver results that WOW
- Choose Positivity
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Michael Eder
(CEO)Founded the company as Student Beans back in 2005. Served as Operations Director then MD before becoming CEO in 2021. Previoulsy MD at Voxburner and a Trader in European Government Bonds at JP Morgan.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Pion
- Talent - We score our interviews based on competency focused questions, and conduct them with a panel to ensure the process is as fair as possible. Additionally, we conduct anonymous CV screening, and ensure our advert copy is gender neutral
- Support and Education - Our employee resource group gives everyone a safe space and platform to share their views and opinions. We’re also committed to continuous training throughout the business, from inclusive communications to assessing the accessibility of our platforms
- Accountability - Whether it’s training for hiring managers on eliminating bias, or the best diversity and inclusion practices and how to be an ally, we’d like to think we offer as much support and education to further foster an inclusive workplace environment. We also share our journey and statistics internally and externally
- Transparency - As we mentioned, we’re not yet where we want to be, but we’re sharing the journey and updating on our progress every step of the way. We don’t hide our statistics –we don’t think it’s something to be swept under the rug. However, sharing our progress helps us to have open and honest conversations about how we can do even better!
- Empowering Employees - Our mental health first aiders are on hand to offer support and guidance when needed. Unlimited holiday and flexi friday ensure you have the right work-life balance you need. We also offer quarterly webinars in partnership with Everymind
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