Platform Team Lead

Lead and mentor a team of 5 senior engineers, each working on a different high-impact platform project

1. Help grow the team to 8 — interviewing, calibrating, and closing candidates
2. Coordinate across engineering teams to align priorities, unblock dependencies, and drive cross-team initiatives to completion
3. Write and review Go code daily; set the bar for code quality, correctness, and design
4. Optimize MySQL performance — query tuning, indexing strategy, schema design, and scaling decisions
5. Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response when production issues hit
6. Establish and enforce strong engineering principles: correctness, observability, documentation, code review standards, and testing discipline
7. Run 1:1s, performance reviews, career development conversations, and team rituals
8. Translate business priorities into a technical roadmap your team can execute onead and mentor a team of 5 senior engineers, each working on a different high-impact platform project

What You Bring

Required

1. Proven management experience leading a team of senior engineers (5+), including hiring, performance management, and career development
2. Deep MySQL knowledge — query optimization, indexing, replication, and performance tuning under real load
3. Experience operating production systems: on-call, incident response, observability, postmortems
4. Experience with functional programming concepts and languages. Your understanding of software quality goes beyond aesthetics and best practices
5. Your decisions are not limited by knowledge: you are comfortable with continuous studying to ensure you make the best choices
6. You are able to think outside of specific languages and frameworks
7. Track record of establishing engineering principles and raising the bar on code quality, correctness, and testing
8. Comfort working across team boundaries — you can build alignment, navigate competing priorities, and get things done without formal authority over other teams
9. Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to Have

1. Experience with Haskell
2. Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams specifically
3. Background scaling systems with high concurrency or large data volumes
4. Experience hiring senior engineers in competitive markets

How You Work

1. You stay technical. You don't drift into pure management — you read code, write code, and earn your team's respect through technical credibility. 2. You set high standards and hold the line on them, kindly but firmly. 3. You're a multiplier. Your team ships more and better because of how you lead, not just what you build personally. 4. You think in systems — both technical and organizational.