Staff Tech Lead, Web & Developer Products

<div class="content-intro"><p>Our everyday digital experiences are in the middle of a realtime revolution: chatting alongside a livestream, getting realtime financial updates, or working with colleagues in a shared online space. Consumers now expect realtime as standard, and Ably powers a large part of it.</p> <p>We put developers first. Our products help teams build, extend, and deliver realtime digital experiences, delivering over 700 billion messages to more than 2 billion devices every month. Teams at HubSpot, Fin, Dialpad, NASCAR, Sportsbet, and General Motors all build on Ably.</p> <p>Working at Ably means helping build the infrastructure that will shape the next generation of the internet. More of what people do online is becoming live, shared and interactive, which only makes what we build more relevant and more necessary. AI is the latest place that shows up. There's still so much to build, and we'd like your help with it.</p></div><h2><strong>About this role</strong></h2> <p>As the Staff Tech Lead for the Developer Experience team at Ably, you’ll report directly to our CTO and co-own the DevEx vision and strategy. You’ll lead the engineering team that owns our customer-facing web platform - our dashboard, documentation platform, and control plane - transforming it into a world-class experience for our users.</p> <p>You are a senior, hands-on engineer who’s passionate about building for developers like yourself; someone who’ll obsess over the developer journey and elevate the user experience of the Ably platform. You’ll blend deep full-stack expertise with a strong product mindset, and lead a team of engineers working on initiatives where the feedback loop is immediate, because you and your team are the target users of the very ecosystem you are building.</p> <p>Ably is an AI-forward organisation and this is a leadership role for an AI-fir