Developer Experience Lead

Introduction

Werfen is a growing, family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain.  We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. Through our Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) business line, we research, develop, and manufacture customized assays and biomaterials. We operate directly in 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors. Our Headquarters and Technology Centers are located in the US and Europe, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

Our success comes from a specific focus in these rapidly evolving diagnostic areas, our commitment to customers, and our dedication to innovation and quality. We’re passionate about providing healthcare professionals the most valuable and complete solutions to improve hospital efficiency and enhance patient care.

Overview

Job Summary

The Developer Experience Lead is a highly experienced Software Engineer who, under minimal supervision, provides technical leadership for developer experience, productivity, and engineering enablement across the R&D Software Engineering organization. The role owns the architecture and implementation of shared capabilities that improve how engineers develop, build, test, release, and operate software, using software engineering, DevOps, automation, cloud, AI, and other technologies as appropriate.

Working strategically and hands-on, the role leads high-complexity, cross-team initiatives; develops and maintains production-quality tools, integrations, reusable workflows, and supporting technical documentation; and establishes standards and controls for their reliable use in a regulated environment. The role is accountable for measurable improvements in developer workflow efficiency, consistency, quality, and self-service adoption at organizational scale.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain the developer experience technical roadmap and target architecture, driving improvements in developer productivity, workflow consistency, and engineering effectiveness.
• Design and deliver developer experience platforms, workflows, automations, integrations, and self-service capabilities that reduce friction and improve software delivery efficiency. Own their reliability and continuous improvement, ensuring they remain stable, supportable, secure, and fit for purpose.
• Establish and maintain standard development workflows, reference implementations, engineering controls, and adoption guidance that improve consistency while satisfying applicable quality, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the evaluation, rollout, and adoption of modern technologies and methods that improve developer productivity, engineering effectiveness, and organizational capability.
• Define and maintain developer experience metrics and feedback mechanisms that identify friction, guide priorities, and demonstrate the value of delivered improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture, design, code, test, and implementation reviews; resolve complex engineering problems and promote sound, reusable practices.
• Lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from definition through delivery, managing technical direction, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and champion a culture of self-service, continuous improvement, experimentation, and shared learning across the software engineering organization.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Networking/Key Relationships

• Software Engineering and Product development teams - to understand workflow needs and enable consistent, scalable engineering practices.
• DevOps and IT teams - to design, operate, and leverage integrated developer platforms, services, and automation.
• Software quality, regulatory, cybersecurity, and compliance partners - to align engineering workflows and technology use with applicable controls and regulated-development requirements.
• Engineering management, technical leadership and architects - to shape standards, roadmaps, investment priorities, and adoption strategies.
• Data, analytics, and AI stakeholders - to evaluate and operationalize AI technologies, governance, evaluation methods, and observability.
• Tool and technology vendors - to assess capabilities, integrations, support needs, and emerging solutions.

Qualifications

Minimum Knowledge & Experience for the position:

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 10 years of related software engineering experience, or Master’s degree plus a minimum of 8 years of related experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience leading high-complexity software engineering work and designing, implementing, testing, releasing, and maintaining shared developer workflows, tools, platforms, or integrations across teams.
• Demonstrated experience with modern Developer Experience platforms, integrations and automations, KPIs and metrics, technical documentation, and production support.
• Experience evaluating and operationalizing AI-assisted development capabilities and working in regulated or quality-controlled software delivery environments is strongly preferred.
• Management has the discretion of substituting relevant work experience for a degree and/or making exceptions to the years of experience requirement.

Skills & Capabilities:

• Expert software engineering judgment and technical leadership, with the ability to work under minimal supervision, take ownership of high-complexity implementations, and provide direction across team boundaries.
• Hands-on proficiency developing maintainable software, automation, tools, and integrations using appropriate programming and scripting languages, APIs, testing practices, and software design principles.
• Ability to evaluate and operationalize automation technologies and frameworks, and develop tools and integrations, that reduce developer friction, enable self-service, and improve the consistency, scalability, and efficiency of engineering workflows.
• Ability to administer and integrate software engineering tools supporting configuration management, requirements management, defect management, code quality, testing, and release management.
• Hands-on capability with cloud operations, preferably AWS, RESTful APIs, third-party service integrations, service monitoring, operational telemetry, networks, and public key infrastructure.
• Ability to evaluate and operationalize AI frameworks, AI-assisted development tools, AI-native engineering systems, multi-agent orchestration, and agentic workflows.
• Ability to establish standards, governance, guardrails, evaluation methods, feedback loops, observability, and outcome metrics for developer enablement and AI-assisted engineering capabilities.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices, vulnerability scanning, automated software bill of materials generation, static code analysis, test automation, and software delivery in SAFe or Agile environments; familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, or FDA guidance is highly desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, collaboration, mentoring, influencing, and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to lead technical reviews and align stakeholders without direct supervisory authority.

Travel Requirements:

• <5% of time.

Closing

If you are interested in constantly learning and being challenged on a daily basis we encourage you to submit your resume or CV. 

Werfen is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workplace. Werfen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination, harassment or retaliation based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as defined by applicable state or federal law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

We operate directly in over 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors. Annual revenue is approximately $2 billion and more than 7,000 employees around the world comprise our Werfen team.

www.werfen.com