Developer Advocate at NCBA Group

Job Purpose Statement

NCBA is implementing its open platform strategy to simplify development on our products. The Developer Advocate is the developer community’s voice. They gather community feedback and questions about the product and take it back to the product acceleration team so they can make improvements and create a better user experience.

You will play a key role in growing and educating our developer community and help them discover, implement, and succeed with our APIs. By collaborating with product, engineering, and marketing, you will help define our broader strategy, serving as the bridge between our developer audience and internal teams.

The Developer Advocate will report to the Head of Platform Partnerships and will play a crucial role in building relationships with developers, providing technical guidance and support, and delivering impactful presentations and demos. The role holder will focus on both the current generation of developers and the new crop developers that will be entering the industry over the next 10 years.

Ideal Job Specifications
Academic:

•  At least an undergraduate degree or its equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

Desired work experience and profile:

•  A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in highly automated environment, including at least 3 years in Software Engineering, Solution Architecture, or DevRel related areas.
•  A proven ability to explain and simplify concepts for a broad technical audience.
•  Proven project management, organization, and planning experience.
•  Experience working with third-party developer tools, including creating documentation, API references, FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) readmes.
•  Experience participating in technical/developer communities, open-source projects, and other developer community groups.
•  Experienced with building and scaling developer relations, technical advocacy or community management functions in emerging and established global technologies and markets.
•  An inspirational person that understands how to build thriving developer communities
•  Obsessed with making developers happy and can engage with communities in a credible way.
•  Well known among developer communities and have a proven track record with inspiring speaking engagements, blog posts, and more.
•  Able to build plans out of chaos, manage multiple work streams, effectively set expectations among stakeholders, and prioritize your work from a long list.
•  Proficient at establishing relationships internally to influence decisions, as well as savvy at building crossfunctional alignment and promoting your strategies with your peers.
•  Creative and passionate about generating grass-roots attention, support and adoption of developeroriented products from opinion makers and technologists in multiple developer communities.