Senior Platform Technical Lead

Job description

๐ŸŽฏ What Youโ€™ll Actually Do

  • Architect, refactor, and scale high-load distributed systems where failure is expensive and latency matters.

  • Lead by example - code when it counts, review relentlessly, debug production issues, and mentor through action, not meetings.

  • Tune performance until it screams: reduce latency, increase throughput, eliminate bottlenecks.

  • Make hard calls: architecture trade-offs, rewrites, tech debt prioritization - and own the consequences.

  • Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Solution Architect. No handoffs. No silos. One goal.

  • Jump into incidents, own RCA end-to-end, and make sure the same issue never happens twice.

  • Push a PoC-first mindset: test fast, fail smart, scale what proves value.

  • Build systems that survive growth, pressure, and time - resilient, observable, and clean.

๐Ÿง  What You Bring

  • 5+ years of backend experience. Youโ€™ve built and operated real systems, not just shipped features.

  • Deep in Node.js / TypeScript. Comfortable with async flows, gRPC, Kafka, and distributed systems pain.

  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS - you know how things break in production.

  • You can sketch a microservice architecture from memory - and explain where it will fail.

  • Obsessed with performance, observability, and efficiency. You measure before you argue.

  • You think like an engineer, decide like an architect, and act like an owner.

  • Youโ€™ve led engineers - not by title, but by competence, example and trust.

  • Bonus: experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.

๐Ÿ”ง How We Work

  • Speed > perfection. Ship, measure, iterate.

  • Impact > output. One scalable fix beats ten โ€œgood enoughโ€ ones.

  • Depth > talk. We respect people who know their stack.

  • Direct > polite. Call out problems. Fix them. Move on.

  • No heroes, no silos. We win as a team or not at all.

๐Ÿ”ฅ What We Offer

  • Fully remote. Work from anywhere in Europe.

  • Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave. We trust adults.

  • Quarterly bonuses. Real impact, real money.

  • Learning budget for courses, certifications.

  • Ownership and autonomy. You decide how to make things faster, cleaner, better.

  • No bureaucracy. No filler. Just meaningful engineering work.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Apply if youโ€™re a deeply technical engineer growing into leadership - someone who doesnโ€™t want to stop coding, but wants their impact to go beyond just commits.

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