Senior Engineering Team Lead – Platform
London, UK (Office-first, 4 days per week)
Up to £132k
The Opportunity
A high-growth technology company is looking for a Senior Engineering Team Lead to head up one of their platform teams.
The platform is mission-critical, highly available, and built to support in-person commerce at scale.
This is a pivotal leadership role where you’ll help shape the future of the internal platform and turn infrastructure into a genuine competitive advantage.
The Role
You will lead a platform team responsible for building and operating a self-service internal platform that empowers product engineering teams to move quickly, safely, and sustainably.
The organisation strongly believes in Infrastructure as a Product, high autonomy, and reducing cognitive load for engineers. You’ll combine people leadership, technical depth, and strategic thinking, acting as both a coach and a technical authority.
What You’ll 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
What You’ll Bring
* 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), 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
* Programming experience (ideally Golang, or similar) is highly desirable
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.