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Tech Lead, Developer Experience & Platform Engineering
The Tech Lead, Developer Experience & Platform Engineering, is expected to improve the daily work of engineers by combining technical leadership with people development. He leads a team of SRE and backend engineers and develops cross-platform tools and processes to increase the efficiency and safety of engineers.
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 goals.
- Drive the development and delivery of internal platforms, CI/CD 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.
Management tasks:
- Lead and grow a small team of SRE and backend engineers.
- Drive platform adoption across engineering teams through training, documentation and developer engagement.
- Backend Guild 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.
- Experience with developer platforms/CI/CD (e.g. GitLab CI/CD).
- Strong background in Java (Quarkus) or Node.js (Nest.js), 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.
We offer
We offer a challenging role in a dynamic environment where you can use your skills and experience to make a positive impact on our business.
Ideal candidate
- Enjoy creating platforms and internal tools that empower engineers.
- Successful in end-to-end responsibility - architecture, implementation and operation.
- Balance technical strategy with mentorship and team delivery.
- Pay close attention to quality, developer experience and security.
- Are passionate about eliminating friction and accelerating feature delivery across engineering teams.
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