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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 stakeholder relationships and driving platform stability through metrics and CI/CD standards. Capable of making strategic roadmap decisions and communicating technical implications to non-engineers.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Platform Stability ManagementCI/CD Standards EnforcementStakeholder ManagementTechnical Architecture DesignProduction System Deployment
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Hard Skills
KotlinAWSPostgresRabbitMQDockerKubernetesNodeGraphQLReact NativeTypeScript
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationProactive Problem SolvingStakeholder EngagementComfortable with AmbiguityLow-Ego Collaboration
Tools & Technologies
GitHubGitHub ActionsJiraConfluenceDatadogSentryGrafana
Industry Keywords
SLASLOIncident ManagementDeveloper ToolingInfrastructure
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 production features that fail testing standards or create unacceptable regression risk
- Centrally enforce CI/CD standards across pods
- Track and report stability metrics alongside commercial outcomes
- Own the business case for platform investment and explain investment rationale to leadership
- 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 based on business value
- Make roadmap trade-offs explicit and communicate implications for dependent products
- Ensure every initiative has a success metric understandable to non-engineers
- Act as the single point of contact for Pod Leads and coordinate business and engineering requirements
- Make platform work visible to leadership through forums, reviews, and business-oriented milestone reporting
- Drive cross-team collaboration 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
- Bring a strong technical voice to roadmap decisions while leaving final architecture calls to Architecture and Tech Leads
- Work with the Platform Engineering Manager and Tech Lead to shape the Platform roadmap
Requirements
What you’ll need- Deep, hands-on engineering background; must have shipped production systems
- Strong commercial instinct, including building business cases, understanding P&L impact, and evaluating ROI
- Exceptional stakeholder management across product, engineering, and finance without direct line authority over all stakeholders
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Track record of contributing as an IC 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 UK and address UK right-to-work requirements
- Must be able to work in the office three days per week
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible working approach tailored to each role
- 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
- Socials and connection events
- Regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites for fully remote roles
- Opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies
