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Engineering Manager, Platform

Employment contract · Job Posted December 05, 2025
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Job Description

We are looking for an engineering manager to help us scale, improve organisational transparency, provide career development, mentorship, and honest feedback for our smart and talented engineers. Using your varying technical backgrounds and interests, you will drive and provide general technical direction and oversight. You will keep teams efficient and executing on the right goals. We build teams that are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership for the things they build.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of our core platform technologies
  • Extend and improve engineering best practices across the organisation
  • Maintain and improve a collaborative environment, acting as a key bridge between application development teams and the platform team
  • Motivate and instil a strong sense of ownership in your team for the end-to-end lifecycle, stability, scalability, and performance of our core platform services
  • Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
  • Ensures that the team delivers high quality products and solutions by following the best practices
  • Build and scale teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other
  • Provide continuous, actionable feedback, address underperformance proactively, and recognise the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
  • Work closely with engineers and collaborate with key stakeholders to define, maintain a prioritised backlog, and establish clear short-term and long-term goals for the platform roadmap
  • Own your team’s deliverables and ensure the continuous delivery of scalable, highly-available, and cost-efficient platform services and infrastructure
  • Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high potential candidates

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of hands-on technical experience in cloud-native environments, specifically with distributed systems and platform development
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in directly leading and managing platform, DevOps, or SRE teams
  • Expertise in designing, building, refactoring, and operating distributed systems and scalable cloud infrastructure at scale
  • Expertise in event-driven architecture and various Messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)
  • Strong knowledge of both relational (SQL) and NoSQL database technologies and their operational considerations in cloud environments
  • Extensive hands-on experience and deep understanding of core AWS services (e.g., EC2, EKS, Lambda, SQS, Security Groups, IAM, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
  • Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Strong experience with containerisation technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes), including Helm and related ecosystem tools
  • Extensive experience with modern monitoring, logging, and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger/OpenTelemetry)
  • Strong familiarity with DevSecOps practices and the implementation of automated security tooling throughout the CI/CD pipeline (e.g., SAST, DAST, secret management, vulnerability scanning)
  • Practical knowledge and experience with various testing methodologies (Unit, Integration, Feature, Mocking) as applied to infrastructure components and platform services
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Fluency in English is required

Nice to have

  • Expert knowledge of various architectural patterns (PaaS/SaaS, SOA, Microservices, Event-Driven), advanced cloud networking, and cloud security best practices within the AWS ecosystem
  • Proven track record of actively improving developer experience (DX) by designing and implementing self-service tooling, internal developer platforms (IDP), and comprehensive automation
  • Prior work experience in highly regulated industries or environments with extremely high demands for uptime, resilience, and data integrity (e.g., Fintech, Telecommunications, Gaming)
  • Experience with budgetary management and cost optimisation for cloud infrastructure
  • Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in relevant technical communities
  • Experience with incident management, post-mortems, and root cause analysis in a production environment
  • Experience driving adoption of new technologies and practices across multiple engineering teams
  • Knowledge of eSIM and GSMA related technologies and services

What we offer

  • Health Insurance
  • work-from-anywhere stipend
  • annual wellness & learning credits
  • annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination

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