Developer Advocate

We are seeking a talented individual to sit between our Development and Marketing teams to help increase Cyclr’s presence, engagement and profile across relevant internal and external development networks and communities.

The Developer Advocate role will suit an experienced developer looking to transition into a commercial/client facing role. You will be drawing on your programming experience to both interact with and advise the community, actively participating in general developer-centric networks and creating developer focused content. Your role will primarily focus on being a mentor for those facing challenges in the native integration world, whether they use an iPaaS or not.

About Cyclr

Cyclr develops a powerful SaaS integration toolkit for SaaS companies. With Cyclr clients can quickly create, manage and deliver an amplified suite of integrations from within their own application.

Our software platform is of critical importance to the clients that adopt it, to the extent that we view them as partners of our business. We expect all parts of our business to touch our clients on their journey

We’re a young but growing business

Cyclr is growing fast. It will be exciting, things will evolve quickly, and you will get experience working on diverse projects. You will be joining our business at a formative stage and will have an opportunity to influence our development direction and growth and you will be helping to establish the foundations of a very large company.

You’re a team player

Our team work across multiple locations. As a result, we live in Slack and video chat to plan, organise, report, test, and generally ensure the smooth progress of projects. You should be able to collect, process, and summarise complex data into effective communication.

About the role

• The objective of the role is to increase Cyclr’s presence and profile across relevant technical networks and communities, engaging with your peers and acting as a knowledge bridge between our engineering team and the developer community.

• You will focus on helping your peers with API centric integration challenges whether they use an iPaaS or not.

• Whilst you will be providing knowledge and support for free to the tech community, ultimately your endeavours will be supplementing the lead generation efforts of our Marketing team through raising Cyclr’s community presence and reputation.

• You will become the voice of Cyclr on external technical forums, engaging technical audiences by participating in value-add conversations within groups and Slack channels.

• You will be pivotal in the development of engagement within our internal Community Site.

• You will assist with the creation of developer focused content, for both internal and external community consumption.

• You will be expected to have proactive involvement in the creation, deployment and quality control of the Cyclr technical documentation suite. 

• You will be expected to stay up-to-date with digital technology trends.

• Monitor, track and report on internal and external engagement.

• You will work across the Product Marketing and Development teams and will report into our Senior Product Marketing Manager.

Requirements

• Experience developing and working with APIs and integrations natively within applications and, ideally, using an iPaaS.

• A desire to share solutions and knowledge with others.

• Self-starter.

• Ability to troubleshoot development issues and to provide guidance. 

• An eye for creating tools and code examples to help solve user problems.

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

• Attention to detail, critical-thinker and problem-solver.

• Experience participating in online and offline developer communities and ecosystems (e.g., open-source platforms, blogs, YouTube videos, tech conferences, hackathons, meetups, technical teaching, blogging and training).

Working at Cyclr

We set out to be a flexible and adaptable employer. We believe that the best teams perform off the back of their own application and initiative and not because they are all made to fit in the same box. The most important thing to us is that you perform your role, deliver against expectation and that you are happy. We expect you to be responsible at work and to this end, we offer a high degree of responsibility when it comes to some of the more standard terms of employment. 

At Cyclr….

LIFE COMES FIRST

We actively promote health and wellbeing and the importance of life outside work

CUSTOMERS ARE PARTNERS

We listen to our partners and put them at the heart of the decisions we make

INTEGRITY MATTERS

We work with honesty and transparency to deliver a product that we can be truly proud of

WE AIM HIGH

We are proactive and ambitious in developing our skills and growing the organisation

Diversity and inclusion

We are an equal opportunities employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and believe that a diverse and inclusive team has a positive impact on our products and services.

Salary

£50,000 - £65,000 per annum, depending on experience and location

Location

We welcome candidates from across the South East and have offices in East Croydon and Brighton that our staff can access anytime, alongside remote working where preferred. 

Working hours

Our core hours are 9-5, Monday-Friday but we are open to flexible working requests.

Benefits 

• A competitive salary based upon your experience and an annual salary review

• A choice of office locations to work from, or the option to work at home

• Family-friendly flexible working patterns

• An uncapped flexible holiday allowance and a mandatory day off on your birthday

• Auto-enrolment to our pension scheme

• The opportunity to develop your skills in a rapidly growing company and a healthy learning and development budget

• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents 

• Travel expenses are paid when travelling beyond your usual assigned office location.

• A generous referral bonus scheme if you can help us find other great teammates

• Cycle to work scheme that allows you to save money on a new work bike and spread the cost over monthly tax-free instalments through your employer.

• Plenty of team rewards as we hit our growth targets

Please send your CV and a short introduction, specifying the role for which you are applying, to recruitment@cyclr.com - NO AGENCIES

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