Head of Platform Engineering

About Gigs Gigs builds a platform that lets tech companies add global mobile connectivity to their products. The goal: make integrating telecom as simple as integrating payments. By automating provisioning and removing telecom hurdles, Gigs helps businesses from fintechs to HR platforms offer mobile services without the usual complexity. The team numbers around 100 people, spread across the US and Europe. Gigs has raised close to $100 million from investors including Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y Combinator. The company brings together engineers and product leaders from places like Stripe, Airbnb, and Shopify, all focused on solving technical and regulatory challenges in telecommunications. Curiosity, creativity, and a drive to shape the future of telecom matter here. Gigs welcomes people who want to tackle tough problems and make an impact. Core Values Speed: Move quickly and deliver. Ambitious deadlines are the norm, and each week counts. Ownership: Spot a problem? Step up and fix it without waiting for approval. Customer Obsession: The success of customers is central to every decision. Ambiguity: Work often involves making decisions with incomplete information. Judgment and instinct matter. First Principles: Question assumptions and dig into the reasons behind how things are done. Role Overview: Senior Platform Engineer (London) This role sits at the heart of Gigs’ technical operations. Senior Platform Engineers design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tools that power the company’s connectivity and payments platform. The work enables product teams to ship faster and more reliably, supporting growth at scale. The Foundation team owns the core systems every Gigs engineer depends on: CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, deployment tools, and shared platform services. Taking on complex infrastructure challenges is a key part of the job, with a focus on keeping systems efficient and dependable.

About the Role Saturn is looking for a Platform Engineer in London. This role focuses on building and improving the platforms that power our products. The work centers on designing systems that scale, run efficiently, and support a growing user base. What You Will Do Develop and optimize core platform components Work closely with other engineers to deliver reliable systems Contribute to the design of scalable solutions that handle increasing demand Team and Collaboration Platform Engineers at Saturn collaborate with a skilled engineering team. The group values practical solutions and a shared commitment to quality.

Your ImpactAs a Senior Platform Engineer at DISCO, you will lead significant projects and play a pivotal role in the success of our engineering teams. Your expertise will inform long-term strategic planning, mentorship for senior engineers, and steer technical decisions across various teams or departments. Your focus will be on system design, implementation, and the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of DISCO’s distributed data platform.What You'll DoTechnical Leadership and Mentorship: Assume a leadership role in project teams, guiding engineers and influencing technical decisions, while innovating and solving complex organizational challenges.Performance Optimization: Design systems that emphasize high performance, scalability, and reliability.Ownership: Proactively identify and address potential issues within products and systems, creating actionable plans for resolution.Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate closely with stakeholders including product managers, designers, developers, and executives to ensure architectural designs align with business needs and customer expectations.Software Development: Develop, maintain, and enhance sophisticated, scalable, high-performance data software solutions tailored for our big data platform at a petabyte scale, ensuring architectural excellence.Code Quality and Optimization: Commit to and enhance code quality through thorough review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to industry best practices.Technical Problem Solving: Tackle intricate technical challenges with innovative problem-solving approaches.Collaboration and Communication: Work effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders during project planning and execution.Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stay abreast of the latest technological trends and advancements, continuously improving your skills and knowledge to contribute innovative ideas to the team.Technical Documentation: Generate and maintain comprehensive technical documentation to ensure clarity and accessibility of information.Data Platform Development: Construct and sustain robust and scalable data platforms to facilitate analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence.Data Integration and ETL: Design and optimize ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, ensuring efficient data integration.

At OakNorth, we are dedicated to empowering the most ambitious businesses in the UK. Since our inception in 2015, we have provided over $21 billion in loans across the UK and US, facilitated the creation of more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 jobs, and supported countless personal savers, all while contributing to the growth of the UK economy. Join us in making a tangible impact!

Genomics England is looking for a Platform Engineer based in London. This full-time position centers on building and maintaining the platforms that enable genomic analysis and data processing. The work directly contributes to making genomic data more accessible and valuable for healthcare. Key responsibilities Develop and maintain platforms that handle genomic data analysis. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design effective solutions. Ensure data processing systems are reliable and efficient to support ongoing research. Role focus This role supports research and healthcare initiatives by providing stable and scalable technology for genomic data. Platform Engineers at Genomics England play a part in advancing how genomic information is used in medical settings.

Join a Revolutionary CompanyMeticulous is transforming the software development landscape at an unprecedented pace. We have created the world's first fully autonomous and comprehensive testing platform specifically for frontend codebases—a groundbreaking capability that we believe is essential for unleashing the full potential of code generation.Our innovative solution has garnered significant interest, with renowned companies such as Dropbox, Wiz, and Notion often prioritizing Meticulous over other software products in their stack. Our dedicated team of eleven, featuring exceptional engineers from esteemed organizations like Uber, Google, Dropbox, GitHub, Meta, and Palantir, has made this success possible.Discover more about our mission in this video here.Your RoleBe Our First Platform EngineerAt Meticulous, we analyze thousands of recorded user sessions for each pull request, necessitating robust and scalable infrastructure that is both fast and cost-effective.As the first dedicated Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of the systems enabling this capability. Your responsibilities will encompass designing and constructing resilient infrastructure to accommodate significant growth, managing its production operations, and shaping our incident response processes. This is not merely a maintenance position; you will be instrumental in defining our operational and architectural strategies as we expand.Enjoy substantial autonomy in this role. As a key member of a small team, your architectural decisions will directly influence our infrastructure development, allowing you to innovate rather than simply execute predefined designs.Key ResponsibilitiesYour contributions will drive our platform engineering initiatives, spanning infrastructure, security, and developer experience:Designing Robust Infrastructure: Architect, build, and scale the compute platform that powers Meticulous, effectively managing our cloud resources through Terraform while maintaining rigorous change management protocols. Optimize infrastructure costs while balancing performance and expenditure as we grow.Ensuring Production Reliability: Enhance our monitoring, alerting, incident response, and on-call protocols to guarantee swift and effective resolution of system issues.Developing Production Code: Integrate platform engineering with general software development tasks, contributing code that extends beyond mere infrastructure.

About FreshaFresha stands as the premier marketplace platform for beauty and wellness, trusted by millions of consumers and businesses globally. Currently, over 130,000 businesses and more than 450,000 stylists and professionals leverage Fresha, having processed over 1 billion appointments to date.Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Fresha operates 15 global offices throughout North America, EMEA, and APAC.Our platform empowers consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses. At the same time, beauty and wellness professionals utilize our all-in-one platform to streamline their operations through intuitive business software and innovative financial technology solutions.Fresha’s ecosystem equips merchants with everything necessary to operate their business smoothly, including appointment bookings, point-of-sale systems, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty programs, beauty product inventory management, and team oversight.Our consumer marketplace enhances revenue opportunities for partner businesses by harnessing the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile applications, alongside advanced integrations with major tech brands like Instagram, Facebook, and Google.Role OverviewAs Fresha embarks on its next phase of global expansion, the Platform Engineering team plays a crucial role in fostering rapid, secure, and sustainable growth.In the capacity of Platform Engineering Team Lead, you will bear responsibility for the team's performance and outcomes, ensuring consistent delivery, proactive communication, robust system architecture, and adherence to operational standards.In light of the swift advancement of AI and automation, this is an exceptional opportunity to redefine platform development and operations, minimizing manual effort, enhancing reliability, and empowering smarter, faster engineering decisions.You will contribute to Fresha’s growth by promoting infrastructure readiness, aligning platform strategies with business objectives, and applying AI where it can provide tangible operational advantages.We place a strong emphasis on customer impact, even within internal projects, as platform enhancements ultimately serve to enrich the customer experience.

Join Our Mission at OmneaAt Omnea, we are transforming the way enterprise businesses function, focusing on the most challenging processes in procurement. A single purchase can take months, generate over 50 emails, and require input from Finance, Legal, Security, and IT for approval.With a remarkable $75M investment from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel, we are set to change this paradigm. Our AI-driven platform seamlessly integrates every individual, step, and system, facilitating quick, secure, and efficient purchasing. We offer a unified platform for requests, automated approvals, risk assessments, and comprehensive spend visibility.This is a $7B+ untapped market, and our growth reflects the immense opportunity: we have achieved a tenfold increase in ARR to double-digit millions within just 18 months, earning the trust of global companies like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. Omnea has recently been recognized as the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe.Our team boasts experience from Tessian (a cybersecurity tech firm backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, and acquired post-Series C). Our members include former founders and operators who have built unicorns, delivered exceptional products, and executed at the highest standards. You will collaborate with leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.Discover More About Life at Omneahere.Why We Need a Platform Engineer NowOur deployment frequency is several times a day, serving enterprise clients who demand unwavering reliability, and our growth trajectory is tenfold. The platform team is responsible for the infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience that supports all of this. We are looking to add a hands-on Platform Engineer to enhance our CI/CD processes, scale our serverless infrastructure, improve observability, and empower every product engineer to achieve greater effectiveness.

Join Us in Revolutionizing the Creator Economy with AIFanvue is a leading force in the rapidly evolving creator monetization landscape. Our AI-driven platform empowers creators to engage, connect, and earn directly from their audiences on a grand scale. Following our recent Series A funding, we have achieved over $100 million in annual recurring revenue, experiencing triple-digit growth year-over-year and supporting a vibrant community of hundreds of thousands of creators and millions of fans worldwide.As a Platform Engineer at Fanvue, your mission will be to streamline processes for our engineering teams. This role is pivotal in developing the infrastructure, tools, and foundational components that enable our product teams to deliver solutions swiftly, safely, and confidently at scale. Your ResponsibilitiesConstruct and uphold core platform infrastructure across diverse cloud environmentsEnhance CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid, secure, and consistent deploymentsDesign and implement observability, monitoring, and alert systems for platform servicesDevelop self-service tools and platform primitives that empower teams to operate independentlyCollaborate with product teams to assess infrastructure needs and eliminate obstaclesBoost reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness across core systemsManage incidents, perform post-incident analyses, and implement lasting solutionsContribute to the documentation, standards, and best practices for the platform Who You AreProven experience as a platform, infrastructure, or backend engineerProficient in working with cloud platforms and distributed systemsFamiliar with infrastructure as code, CI/CD systems, and monitoring toolsPossess a product-oriented mindset and a collaborative spirit

About Light.At Light, we are on a mission to transform outdated factory-era ERPs into dynamic, living software. Our Smart Financial Platform equips modern, global businesses with capabilities like automated accounting, real-time reporting, and financial workflows that evolve with their pace.Creating alongside our customers, we prioritize speed and craftsmanship. In a short span, we've evolved from a concept to a vital resource for renowned companies such as Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. Our users don’t just work with Light—they enjoy using it.As a pioneering team, we are creating a new software category. Imagine engineers passionate about finance, designers focused on reconciliation, and operators treating finance as a product. If you’re enthusiastic about revolutionizing financial workflows, you’re in the right place.Supported by top-tier investors and guided by industry leaders, we are developing groundbreaking products with the freedom to innovate boldly and take ownership of our results. Join us in making Light the global standard for next-gen finance.The AI Platform Engineer RoleAs a member of the Foundation Team, which acts as the catalyst for our engineering organization, you will play a pivotal role in architecting our internal

Backend Platform EngineerWe are looking for a talented Platform Engineer to join our elite team at mlabs, a pioneering software development firm leading the charge in the fintech and digital asset industries. Our organization is a major contributor to one of the world's largest and most dynamic crypto social networks, having generated upwards of $600 million in revenue since early 2024. At the crossroads of high-scale social coordination and decentralized finance, we are committed to revolutionizing the future infrastructure.This role is crucial to maintaining the security, scalability, and integrity of our platform, which is attracting global attention. The ideal candidate will enhance our backend engineering and infrastructure security, executing robust controls across a complex cloud and blockchain ecosystem.Key Responsibilities:Pipeline Security: Develop and maintain a secure CI/CD pipeline, integrating automated security checks throughout the development lifecycle.Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and implement infrastructure following IaC principles while adhering to security best practices.Security Automation: Automate security scanning and monitoring of our cloud and blockchain infrastructure for real-time threat detection and mitigation.Container Security: Establish and manage advanced security protocols for high-throughput containerized environments.Observability & Metrics: Create and sustain comprehensive security dashboards to monitor and report on our security posture.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside development teams to address security issues and enhance code-level security standards.Secrets & Key Management: Design and implement sophisticated solutions for secrets management and cryptographic key handling.Configuration Baselines: Set and enforce secure configuration baselines across our entire cloud infrastructure.

Join DV Trading as a Client Platforms Engineer in London, where you'll be at the forefront of developing and optimizing cutting-edge trading platforms. This role is perfect for an innovative engineer eager to leverage their technical skills in a dynamic environment. You will collaborate with a talented team to enhance user experiences and streamline trading functionalities.

Join Contentful as a Senior Platform Engineer and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to creating scalable and efficient software solutions. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to enhance our platform, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, driving innovation and excellence in our engineering practices.

Join a Revolutionary CompanyAt Palantir, we develop cutting-edge software that drives data-informed decision-making and operational efficiency. Our innovative platforms enable partners to create life-saving pharmaceuticals, anticipate supply chain challenges, locate missing individuals, and much more.Your RoleAre you passionate about crafting exceptional platforms that facilitate mission-critical software deployment at scale? Apollo is at the forefront of autonomous software management and continuous deployment, spanning on-premise solutions, diverse cloud providers, isolated environments, and stringent accreditation frameworks such as IL-5 and FedRAMP, extending even to edge computing. Discover the challenges Apollo addresses on our blog or view our Apollo demo.As a Software Engineer on the Apollo platform, you will develop software solutions that redefine how organizations worldwide implement software. Your work will support mission-critical software for both Palantir and our clients across commercial and government sectors.We seek individuals with a curious mindset, a strong commitment to engineering excellence, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where innovative ideas are celebrated. Apollo Software Engineers engage in all phases of the product lifecycle, from ideation and design to prototyping, execution, and deployment. You will collaborate closely with both technical and non-technical team members to understand customer challenges and deliver effective solutions.This position welcomes candidates of all experience levels.

Join our dynamic Data Processing Product Area at Spotify, where we create innovative platforms and tools that transform the way we process, manage, and leverage data on a massive scale. Our team empowers various departments within Spotify to tackle intricate data challenges with assurance. We emphasize enhancing efficiency, quality, and innovation, enabling engineers and data professionals to accelerate their work while ensuring reliability and cost-effectiveness.

Role Overview Spotify is looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Data Platform team in London. This position focuses on building and improving the backend systems that power Spotify’s data processing and analytics. The work supports a seamless experience for millions of listeners around the globe. What You Will Do Develop and maintain scalable backend systems for data processing and analytics. Work closely with cross-functional teams to optimize Spotify’s data infrastructure. Help ensure high availability and strong performance across backend services. About the Team The engineering team at Spotify values collaboration and technical excellence. The Data Platform group plays a key role in supporting the company’s ability to deliver music and insights at scale.

yuno is looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Data Platform team in London. This position centers on strengthening the company’s data infrastructure, which is essential for collecting, managing, and using data across multiple products and teams. Role overview The Engineering Manager will oversee a group of engineers dedicated to the development and performance of yuno’s data platform. The work involves guiding the team through the design and implementation of data systems that are both scalable and reliable. What you will do Lead and support a team working on the data platform’s development and ongoing performance. Direct the design and rollout of data systems built for scale and reliability. Encourage a collaborative and creative team culture. Ensure delivery of data solutions that align with business goals. Location This role is based in London.

Blacklane is hiring an Engineering Manager - Platform to join the London office. This leadership role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and developer experience, with a focus on turning a suite of internal tools into a unified platform product. The team is growing, and this position plays a key part in shaping both processes and culture to help product teams deliver more effectively. What you will do Lead the team in integrating platform tools into a single, cohesive internal product. Collaborate closely with the Staff Engineer to set direction, define standards, and manage project timelines. Make decisions that prioritize meaningful business outcomes over simply closing tickets. Clarify ambiguous requirements and turn them into actionable plans. Mentor engineers, support hiring efforts, and foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment. Encourage continuous learning and improvement within the Platform unit. Champion high standards in developer experience, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering. Maintain open communication with other Engineering Managers to coordinate expectations and dependencies. Requirements Ideal candidates bring experience in Platform, Backend, or Data Engineering, and enjoy solving complex problems through to completion. A commitment to learning and team development is important. Initiative: Proactively addresses important issues and builds strong business cases for solutions. Execution: Delivers results and navigates challenges with a strategic mindset. Location This role is based in London.

Join Multiverse as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Platform Engineering. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise to design, build, and enhance our platform, ensuring it meets the highest standards of performance and reliability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions that drive the success of our innovative programs.