Lead Software Engineer (Platform Infrastructure)

Location: London, United Kingdom — hybrid

Salary: £95,000–£105,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a growing international technology business with a high-performing team of around 40 people and ambitious scale-up plans.

What you will do

• Own the reliability, scalability, and operability of production systems.
• Lead improvements across infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, observability, incident response, and operational resilience.
• Partner with the VP of Engineering on architectural decisions, platform strategy, and infrastructure patterns.
• Contribute hands-on through coding and end-to-end ownership of platform systems.
• Improve developer experience, tooling, engineering workflows, system performance, and production stability.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards through code reviews, technical discussions, and collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including platform, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience building and operating systems in cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and scalable distributed systems.
• Experience delivering reliable production systems and owning problems end-to-end.
• Broad technical depth across platform infrastructure and modern engineering practices.
• Technical influence built on credibility and expertise rather than authority.
• Clear communication, pragmatic decision-making, hands-on delivery focus, and a team-oriented approach.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior technical leadership role during the company’s next growth phase.
• High visibility across engineering and executive leadership.
• Significant influence over platform architecture, infrastructure, and technical direction.
• Hybrid work in London.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV and a short cover letter explaining why you are a strong fit for the role.