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Tech Lead, Developer Experience & Platform Engineering
The Tech Lead, Developer Experience & Platform Engineering, is responsible for transforming the day-to-day work of engineers by developing a platform that increases their efficiency, security and happiness. He leads a team of SRE and backend engineers and is responsible for providing technical leadership and driving team growth and organizational alignment.
Job description
About the role
As a Tech Lead on our Platform team, you will change the way engineers across multiple product teams experience their daily work - from local development to production deployment.
Tasks
Technical tasks:
- Own internal platform roadmap and backlog - align priorities with strategic goals, developer feedback and long-term sustainability
- Drive the development and delivery of internal platforms, CICD pipelines and developer tooling
- Create shared libraries, frameworks and developer tools (SDKs, CLIs) that standardize and improve productivity
- Embed safe, observable and compliant practices into platform development while leveraging AI and automation to reduce cognitive load
- Communicate changes clearly via changelogs, documentation and internal demos
Management tasks:
- Lead and grow small teams of SRE and backend engineers - conduct 1:1 meetings, support onboarding, provide goal setting and performance feedback
- Drive platform adoption across engineering teams through training, documentation and developer engagement
- Lead backend build and promote consistent standards across teams
- Work with Tech Leads, Engineering Managers and Architects to align platform direction with organizational needs
- Promote a culture of responsibility, psychological safety and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Experience in leading platform or developer productivity initiatives across teams
- Strong background in Java (Quarkus) or NodeJS (NestJS), with Kubernetes, Terraform and GitLab CICD
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices and developer tooling
- Experience in the implementation of life cycle strategies (versioning, migration, deprecation)
- Proven ability to document, communicate and promote platform tools and standards
Ideal candidate
- Enjoys building platforms and internal tools that empower engineers
- Blossoms with end-to-end responsibility - architecture, implementation and operation
- Balances technical strategy with mentorship and team delivery
- Takes intensive care of quality, developer experience and security
- Is passionate about eliminating friction and accelerating feature delivery across engineering teams
Success
- Developers rely on your tools and templates to deliver faster and more securely
- Your team is stable, observable and safe-by-default
- Your platform services are stable, observable and secure-by-default
- Engineers seek your advice and feedback loops drive continuous platform improvement
- AI tooling and automation measurably reduce developer workload
- Your platform work enables
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