Developer Experience Lead
Date: 20 Feb 2026
Location: Trollhattan, SE
Company: GKN Aerospace Careers
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
About us
The Digital Office drives the digital initiative portfolio for Digitalization & IT. We support the organization with structure, transparency, and clear decision-making support, ensuring that our digital investments create real value.
You will join a team that works closely with business and product areas across the company. We value collaboration, openness, and a practical approach to solving problems. Our work environment is friendly, supportive, and focused on helping teams deliver with clarity and purpose.
Job Summary
As Developer Experience Lead, you define and improve the engineering principles, practices, and tools that enable a consistent and high quality software development environment. You strengthen developer productivity by reducing friction in workflows, promoting good engineering practices, and continuously improving the technical foundation that supports software delivery.
Job Responsibilities
• Define and maintain software development principles and engineering standards
• Promote best practices for code quality, refactoring, testing, and maintainability
• Support consistent use of frameworks, libraries, and patterns to reduce complexity
• Help development teams apply agreed engineering practices in a practical and effective way
• Drive continuous improvement of the software factory with a strong developer focus
Qualifications & Personal skills
You have a strong engineering mindset and enjoy helping teams improve how they work. You communicate technical topics in a clear way and balance pragmatism with maintaining quality. You take an enterprise‑wide view, identify recurring technical challenges, and encourage continuous improvement. You build trust through collaboration, openness, and a service‑oriented approach.
• Several years of experience in software development or software engineering
• Solid understanding of modern development workflows, including CI/CD and source control
• Experience promoting engineering standards or best practices
• Ability to advise teams on code quality and long term maintainability
• Strong communication skills with an ability to explain technical topics simply
Desirable
• Experience working with developer tooling or platform engineering
• Experience with modern cloud based development environments
• Background in improving engineering culture or developer experience
Application
This position is based in Trollhättan, Sweden, as such, the applicant should be able to gain the right to live and work in Sweden. Travel to other locations within the global GKN Aerospace group is expected.
The selection process takes place continuosly. The position may therefore be filled before the application deadline. Therefore, do not wait with your application!
Last date for application: 2026-03-20
For more information, please contact hiring manager:
AMANDA DALSTAM | HEAD OF DIGITAL OFFICE | GKN Aerospace Engine Systems Sweden. Tel: +46 520 29 31 57
As part of our recruitment strategy at GKN, we have predetermined our recruitment and marketing channels. Therefore, we kindly request no contact from recruitment agencies, media sales, or similar entities.
The position requires that you undergo and be approved according to the current regulations for security protection. For positions where GKN's customer has requirements for security classification, this may, in some cases, involve specific citizenship requirements.
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
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