Engineering Lead, Platform Engineering
Core
Hands-on engineering leader owning people management and delivery for a platform engineering team building cloud infrastructure and developer tools.
Role type
Senior IC engineering lead (people manager)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer platforms, and operational tooling for a lease-to-own financing platform.
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
People leadership, delivery ownership, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, observability, automation scripting, AI coding tools
Preferred skills
Service mesh (Istio), relational databases (PostgreSQL/Aurora), serverless (Lambda), distributed systems reliability, AI/ML workload infrastructure
Technologies
Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Bash, Python, Go, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Istio, RDS PostgreSQL, Lambda
Responsibilities
Manage team performance and career development, drive sprint execution and backlog translation, build and evolve CI/CD pipelines, improve observability and operational readiness, implement secure delivery practices, champion AI-assisted development, coordinate incident response.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management