Lead Platform Engineer

Record of successfully and consistently delivering critical path projects, on time and at scale

Excellent communication, with a focus on doing this asynchronously across multiple timezones and countries

Meticulous organisation and planning skills

Experience of mentoring and coaching a team to perform at a high-level of quality

Experience managing and supporting large-scale internet-facing distributed systems, for millions of customers

Knowledge of security best-practices, security and CI/CD tooling, and methodologies

⭐️ Bonus points

Previous experience in leading technical delivery for small, highly-autonomous teams

Track-record of effective collaboration with other teams and departments to drive holistic outcomes

A proactive, innovative mindset with the ability to drive continuous improvement

Previous experience working in a remote-first asynchronous team providing 24x7 support

Familiarity with some of our tech stack:

Typescript, python, or similar programming languages

Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool

AWS services such as Lambda, IAM, EventBridge/SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS

Messaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies

Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with Linux

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