Engineering Team Lead

Job description

Senior Engineering Team Lead – Platform

London, UK (Office-first, 4 days per week)

Up to £140k

The Opportunity

A high-growth technology company is looking for a Senior Engineering Team Lead to head up one of their platform teams.

The platform is mission-critical, highly available, and built to support in-person commerce at scale.

This is a pivotal leadership role where you’ll help shape the future of the internal platform and turn infrastructure into a genuine competitive advantage.

The Role

You will lead a platform team responsible for building and operating a self-service internal platform that empowers product engineering teams to move quickly, safely, and sustainably.

The organisation strongly believes in Infrastructure as a Product, high autonomy, and reducing cognitive load for engineers. You’ll combine people leadership, technical depth, and strategic thinking, acting as both a coach and a technical authority.

What You’ll Do

• Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team through coaching, feedback, and empowerment
• Lead the design and evolution of core infrastructure and self-service platform capabilities
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure systems are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and resilient
• Partner closely with senior stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions
• Own the delivery of impactful initiatives, balancing speed, reliability, and long-term platform health

What You’ll Bring

• A product-first mindset, treating internal engineers as customers
• Experience leading Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams, with a strong servant-leadership approach
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, including: Kubernetes, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Public cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), Managed databases
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Proven ability to make pragmatic technical decisions under real-world constraints
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform
• Programming experience (ideally Golang, or similar) is highly desirable

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

24-01-2026

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English