Platform Technical Lead

🎯 What You’ll Actually Do

• Architect, refactor, and scale high-load distributed systems where failure is expensive and latency matters.
• Lead by example - code when it counts, review relentlessly, debug production issues, and mentor through action, not meetings.
• Tune performance until it screams: reduce latency, increase throughput, eliminate bottlenecks.
• Make hard calls: architecture trade-offs, rewrites, tech debt prioritization - and own the consequences.
• Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Solution Architect. No handoffs. No silos. One goal.
• Jump into incidents, own RCA end-to-end, and make sure the same issue never happens twice.
• Push a PoC-first mindset: test fast, fail smart, scale what proves value.
• Build systems that survive growth, pressure, and time - resilient, observable, and clean.
   

🧠 What You Bring

• 5+ years of backend experience. You’ve built and operated real systems, not just shipped features.
• Deep in Node.js / TypeScript. Comfortable with async flows, gRPC, Kafka, and distributed systems pain.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS - you know how things break in production.
• You can sketch a microservice architecture from memory - and explain where it will fail.
• Obsessed with performance, observability, and efficiency. You measure before you argue.
• You think like an engineer, decide like an architect, and act like an owner.
• You’ve led engineers - not by title, but by competence, example and trust.
• Bonus: experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
   

🔧 How We Work

• Speed > perfection. Ship, measure, iterate.
• Impact > output. One scalable fix beats ten “good enough” ones.
• Depth > talk. We respect people who know their stack.
• Direct > polite. Call out problems. Fix them. Move on.
• No heroes, no silos. We win as a team or not at all.
   

🔥 What We Offer

• Fully remote. Work from anywhere in Europe.
• Unlimited vacation + paid sick leave. We trust adults.
• Quarterly bonuses. Real impact, real money.
• Learning budget for courses, certifications.
• Ownership and autonomy. You decide how to make things faster, cleaner, better.
• No bureaucracy. No filler. Just meaningful engineering work.
   

👉 Apply if you’re a deeply technical engineer growing into leadership - someone who doesn’t want to stop coding, but wants their impact to go beyond just commits.