Tech Lead, Developer Experience & Platform Engineering

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.

They combine technical leadership with people enablement to make engineers faster, safer and more enjoyable.

You will lead a small team of SRE and backend engineers and treat the platform as a product - balancing roadmap execution, developer experience and operational resilience.

Tasks

Technical tasks:

• Own internal platform roadmap and backlog - align priorities with strategic goals, developer feedback and long-term sustainability and viability;
• Design and delivery of internal platforms, CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling;
• Creation of common libraries, frameworks and developer tools (SDKs, CLIs) that standardize and improve productivity;
• Incorporate safe standard, observable and compliant practices into platform development, while leveraging AI and automation to reduce cognitive load;
• Clear communication to engineers (via changelogs, documentation and internal demos);
• Function as technical decision-maker for platform architecture, tooling standards and lifecycle guidelines.

Management tasks:

• Lead and grow a small team of SRE and backend engineers - conducting 1:1s, assisting with onboarding, goal setting and performance feedback;
• Drive platform adoption across engineering teams through training, documentation and developer engagement;
• Leading the backend guild and promoting consistent standards across teams;
• Partner with tech leads, engineering managers and architects to align platform direction with organizational needs;
• Promoting a culture of ownership, 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 CI/CD;
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices and developer tooling;
• Experience in the implementation of lifecycle strategies (versioning, migration, deprecation);
• Proven ability to document, communicate and promote platform tools and standards.

Ideal candidate

• Enjoy creating platforms and internal tools that empower engineers;
• Success in end-to-end ownership - architecture, implementation and operation;
• Balance between technical strategy and mentorship and team delivery;
• Deep interest in quality, developer experience and security;
• Passion for removing friction and accelerating feature delivery across engineering teams.

Success criteria

• Developers rely on your tools and templates to deliver faster and more securely;
• Your team and your platforms are stable, observable and secure;
• Her team is committed, autonomous and delivers high-quality solutions;
• Engineers seek your guidance and feedback loops drive continuous platform improvement.
• AI tooling and automation measurably reduce the burden on developers.