Title:  Platform Engineering Lead

We are building a modern platform that supports complex workflows, automation, and emerging agent-driven capabilities. This role owns the shared technical foundations that product teams build on. You ensure the platform is coherent, reusable, and scalable, while enabling teams to move quickly without re-solving the same problems. 

This is not an operations role and not an architecture-only role. You lead hands-on platform engineering, translating architectural direction into concrete systems, frameworks, and paved roads that product engineers rely on every day. 

Responsibilities 

• Own and evolve shared platform components used across products and teams 

• Build and maintain common frameworks for workflow orchestration, automation and agent execution 

• Define and implement standard service templates, libraries and internal APIs 

• Establish consistent patterns for messaging, caching, state management and background processing 

• Ensure platform capabilities are easy to adopt and hard to misuse 

• Partner closely with Solution, Data and Security Architects to turn designs into working systems 

• Work with Product Engineers to reduce duplication and improve developer experience 

• Drive coherence across services by enforcing shared abstractions and patterns 

• Balance platform stability with rapid iteration as product needs evolve 

• Make explicit trade-offs between flexibility, simplicity and long-term maintainability 

• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce complexity and improve leverage across teams 

What you will work with 

• Shared backend frameworks and libraries 

• Workflow and orchestration engines 

• Event-driven and asynchronous messaging systems 

• Caching, memory and state-handling mechanisms 

• Internal APIs, SDKs and service templates 

• Developer tooling and documentation 

• Observability signals related to system and workflow behavior 

Requirements 

• Full professional fluency in English (written and spoken) is mandatory

• Strong background in building and evolving platform or shared systems 

• Experience designing abstractions that multiple teams successfully adopt 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and service-based architectures 

• Ability to reason about system behavior over time, including failure and recovery 

• Hands-on engineering mindset with a bias toward shipping usable foundations 

• Comfort working in environments where patterns are still forming 

• Clear communication and the ability to align teams around common approaches 

• Pragmatic approach to balancing ideal architecture with delivery realities 

How we approach platform engineering 

Platform engineering exists to create leverage. Our principles are: 

• Build shared foundations once and reuse everywhere 

• Provide clear, opinionated defaults instead of endless options 

• Enable autonomy without sacrificing coherence 

• Treat internal platforms as products with users and feedback 

• Evolve patterns based on real usage, not speculation 

• Reduce cognitive load for product engineers wherever possible