Engineering Manager

Role overview Lead the Platform Foundation team responsible for the internal service framework that powers hundreds of production services. This is a people-and-delivery leadership role focused on scaling the team from 5 to 8+ engineers, partnering on technical direction while owning hiring, growth, and stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities - Own the core service framework, including the service runtime, storage and streaming SDKs, and the Kubernetes operators that provision infrastructure declaratively. - Oversee the platform CLI and developer-facing tooling, covering object storage, search, caching, and out-of-the-box observability, alerting, and autoscaling for every service. - Hire, onboard, and grow engineers, including settling several recent joiners and creating growth paths for junior team members. - Drive platform reliability and adoption, with success measured by how many internal teams choose to build on the platform. - Co-own platform uptime and disaster recovery alongside the Infrastructure/SRE organisation, including a clear operational boundary for shared infrastructure. - Partner with two tech leads who own technical direction, making the split between leadership and delivery responsibilities explicit.

Requirements - Track record of growing a backend team through a step change in size and developing engineers into tech leads. - Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams that serve internal engineering customers. - Enough technical grounding to hold credible architecture conversations about distributed systems, streaming platforms such as Kafka, key-value stores, and Kubernetes. - Demonstrated skill in managing alongside strong tech leads, including more than one on the same team, without role confusion. - Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping shape the role during early stages of the process. - Track record of partnering with SRE or Infrastructure organisations on shared production ownership.

Benefits and work setup - Medical or health insurance. - Open annual leave policy. - Employee Assistance Programme. - Training and learning development support. - Additional benefits vary by country and will be discussed during the hiring process.