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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates a strong engineering background with hands-on experience in shipping production systems, while effectively managing platform stability, incident management, and cross-team collaboration. Capable of translating technical investments into measurable business outcomes and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
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Platform Stability ManagementCI/CD Standards EnforcementStakeholder ManagementBusiness Case DevelopmentIncident Management
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Hard Skills
KotlinAWSPostgresRabbitMQDockerKubernetesNodeGraphQLReact NativeTypeScript
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationProactive AttitudeStakeholder EngagementComfortable with AmbiguityLow-Ego Approach
Tools & Technologies
GitHubGitHub ActionsJiraConfluenceDatadogSentryGrafana
Industry Keywords
SLASLOIncident ManagementPlatform EngineeringDeveloper Tooling
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSDockerGrafanaGraphQLKotlinKubernetesNode.jsPostgresRabbitMQReactReact NativeTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own platform stability, including SLA/SLO metrics, incident rates, and release quality
- Hold release gating authority and block features that fail testing standards or introduce unacceptable regression risk
- Enforce CI/CD standards centrally across pods
- Track and report platform stability metrics alongside commercial outcomes
- Own the business case for platform investment and explain investment in terms leadership understands
- Track platform impact through developer velocity, incident cost, time-to-market, reliability, and capacity
- Input into platform team headcount and investment decisions
- Own and prioritise the platform backlog and roadmap by business value
- Make platform trade-offs explicit and communicate impacts to dependent products
- Ensure every initiative has a defined, non-technical success metric
- Serve as the single point of contact for Pod Leads and manage business and engineering requirements
- Make platform work visible to leadership through forums, reviews, and business milestone translation
- Drive cross-team collaboration and buy-in with other Product Managers and engage architecture in technical design
- Escalate requests that would create unsustainable platform load or technical debt
- Write code, review pull requests, and participate in architecture design
- Work with the Platform Engineering Manager and Tech Lead to shape the Platform roadmap
- Connect technical investment to measurable business outcomes
- Help build infrastructure foundations that enable products and engineering teams to scale
Requirements
What you’ll need- Deep, hands-on engineering background; must have shipped production systems
- Strong commercial instinct, including building business cases, speaking to P&L impact, and evaluating ROI
- Exceptional stakeholder management across product, engineering, and finance without direct line authority over all of them
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Track record of contributing as an individual contributor while operating at a senior, cross-team level
- Proactive, low-ego, and clear communicator
- Experience in platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling contexts is nice to have
- Familiarity with SLA/SLO frameworks and incident management at scale is nice to have
- Experience enforcing CI/CD standards across multiple teams or pods is nice to have
- Prior work making invisible infrastructure legible to non-technical leadership is nice to have
- Experience with Kotlin, AWS, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Node, GraphQL, React Native, TypeScript, Relay, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, Sentry, and Grafana
- Must be able to work in the office three days per week
- Must have or obtain the right to work in the UK
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible working approach tailored to each role
- Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly
- Socials and connection opportunities and events
- Private health cover
- Retirement savings plans
- Employee referral programme with a competitive bonus
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations
- Cycle-to-work scheme available in select locations
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme available in select locations
- Opportunities to attend in-person socials and off-sites