Platform Lead

We’re looking for a Platform Lead to join our Engineering team at Blue Light Card at a pivotal moment. This is a foundational role, with the platform function just getting started and a real opportunity to shape its direction, culture, and impact from the ground up.

As Platform Lead, you’ll own platform engineering end to end, setting the strategy, building the team, and ensuring product squads have the tooling, infrastructure, and paved roads they need to deliver with confidence. You’ll define what “production ready” means across the organisation and work closely with Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers to make the right technical choices the easiest ones to make.

This is a hands‑on leadership role that balances deep technical involvement with organisational impact. You’ll stay close to the technology and the challenges teams face, while owning the platform roadmap, influencing technical direction, and building a platform team that product squads trust and rely on.

Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team, creating an environment where engineers and squads can thrive

Own the platform roadmap, ensuring it delivers clear value to product teams and supports business growth

Act as the trusted technical authority for platform and infrastructure decisions across engineering

Set clear, practical production readiness standards covering reliability, observability, security, scalability, and cost

Build and evolve paved‑road platform solutions, reference architectures, and reusable tooling

Embed strong operational practices, including SLOs, alerting, and effective incident management

Use operational data and insights to continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and efficiency

Enable product teams to be increasingly self-sufficient through great documentation, collaboration, and thoughtful use of automation and AI