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Lead Backend Platform Engineer
London
Full time permanent
Competitive salary plus equity
A fast growing product team is looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of the backend and platform foundations. This is a hands on leadership role for someone who still wants to build the hardest parts of the system while setting the engineering bar for a small team.
Location and working pattern
This role is London based and requires four days per week onsite. There is no flexibility on the onsite requirement.
What you will do
- Build and own core backend services and APIs from design through to production
- Lead architecture decisions for scalable microservices and event driven systems
- Own reliability and performance as the platform scales
- Coach and unblock engineers through reviews pairing and delivery leadership
- Shape how the team uses modern AI assisted development workflows in day to day engineering
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership to decide what to build next and what not to build yet
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What we are looking for
- 5 plus years building backend systems in production environments
- Proven experience leading projects or leading engineers as a senior or lead
- Strong Node.js experience and deep NestJS knowledge
- Strong API design skills and experience with microservices patterns
- Comfort owning cloud infrastructure decisions and deployment patterns
- Product mindset and ability to translate messy real world workflows into solid systems
- Experience building with LLMs or agent style pipelines is a big plus
- Startup pace mindset you like ownership and moving quickly with high standards
- Ideally a strong academic background, with a degree from a Russell Group university preferred
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Tech overview
- Backend built with NestJS
- Frontend includes Next.js
- Microservices and event driven approach
- Cloud native environment with containers and Kubernetes
- Datastores include Postgres plus additional data stores depending on use case
What you get
- Real technical ownership from day one
- Direct access to senior engineering leadership
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
If you are a backend leaning lead who wants to build and lead at the same time, message me for the full details and a quick intro call.
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