Team Lead Platform Engineering

TL;DR

Team Lead Platform Engineering: Accountable for the team’s performance and outcomes, ensuring delivery is predictable, communication is proactive, systems are well-architected, and operational standards are upheld. Focus on infrastructure readiness, aligning platform strategy with business outcomes, and applying AI where it delivers real operational leverage.

Location: On-site in London

Company

hirify.global is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.

What you will do

• Apply AI-assisted approaches to reduce toil, improve reliability, and support platform decision-making where it creates clear value.
• Implement with AI-assisted detection, triage, and automation to improve signal quality and reduce manual effort.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, and Security stakeholders.
• Own the reliability and performance of the platform, ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality results.
• Foster continuous learning through retros, documentation, and knowledge-sharing.
• Own onboarding and team health, ensuring engineers are set up for success.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an engineering leader, driving high-impact outcomes across platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams
• Bring hands-on experience applying automation and AI/LLM-based tools to improve observability, incident response, and reduce operational toil
• Strong technical background across infrastructure, cloud platforms, and distributed systems
• Knowledge of cloud architecture, workload management, DevOps, and SRE principles
• Experience with AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront), or equivalent platforms on GCP or Azure
• Demonstrate strong programming and automation skills in Python, Go, or Bash, and use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to build repeatable, low-risk systems

Culture & Benefits

• Creating a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable.
• All hirify.global people to feel included and truly empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals.
• Every job application received is reviewed manually by our talent team.

Hiring process

• Screen Stage - Video-call with a member from the Talent Team (45-60min)
• 1st Stage - Technical video/In-person interview with the team (60min)
• 2nd Stage - Technical Video/In-person interview with Team (up to 1.5 hours)
• Final Stage - Video interview with VP of Engineering & CTO (60min)