Senior Engineering Team Lead (Platform Engineering)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Team Lead (Platform Engineering): Leading and nurturing a high-performing platform team responsible for building and operating a self-service internal platform with an accent on driving architectural decisions for secure, scalable, and resilient systems. Focus on combining people leadership, technical depth, strategic thinking, and empowering product engineering teams to move quickly and sustainably.

Location: London, UK, office-first (4 days per week)

Salary: £135,000

Company

A high-growth technology company building a mission-critical, highly available platform to support in-person commerce at scale.

What you will do

• Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team through coaching, feedback, and empowerment.
• Lead the design and evolution of core infrastructure and self-service platform capabilities.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure systems are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and resilient.
• Partner closely with senior stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Own the delivery of impactful initiatives, balancing speed, reliability, and long-term platform health.

Requirements

• A product-first mindset, treating internal engineers as customers.
• Experience leading Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams, with a strong servant-leadership approach.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Public cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), and Managed databases.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Proven ability to make pragmatic technical decisions under real-world constraints.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.

Nice to have

• Programming experience (ideally Golang, or similar).

Culture & Benefits

• Strong belief in Infrastructure as a Product.
• High autonomy for engineering teams.
• Focus on reducing cognitive load for engineers.
• Commitment to diversity and equal opportunities.