Platform Engineering Team Lead

Responsibilities

• Work together with your manager, other engineering managers, service owners and champions from various teams to understand their pains and prioritize the teams’ tasks accordingly.
• Lead a team of engineers with a computer science background, keep their vision focused and aligned with management, teach them how to lead projects effectively, collect feedback and give good service to the engineers of the company
• Build decentralized ecosystems that are very easy to contribute to with vibe coding (Backstage, CLI tools, Microservice templates, Self Service, HELM Charts values, etc)
• Drive high-impact, multi-team technical initiatives from ideation to delivery by establishing clear technical standards, defining trackable compliance metrics while securing the buy-in of other engineering leaders
• Lead Kubernetes (K8s) initiatives.
• Manage research of cutting edge cloud native technologies

Requirements

Computer Science degree from a leading university

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience developing applications on K8S using HELM/Kustomize/Crossplane/CDK/Other
• Understand the concepts of Platform Engineering well

Strong backend development skills in a modern languages

• Typescript/Python with Asyncio/Go/Rust/Modern C#/Kotlin.
• Proficiency with Claude/Codex which includes writing skills, system prompts & delivering features across multiple repos.

Preferred

• Production experience running services on Kubernetes..
• Proven experience writing design documents, presenting them to engineering leaders and answering hard technical questions in fluent English.
• Experience writing and maintaining internal tools with an impact on developer experience such as:
• Backstage/Port, internal CLI tools/Microservice templates/infra-related libraries, agentic flows/AI skills
• Experience working with open source K8S charts such as:

Key Responsibilities

~50% hands on development

K

eycloak, Debezium, Airflow, Temporal, a feature flag system or LangSmith

What we offer

• A culture that values product ownership, collaborative architectural planning, and building wins for your resume/portfolio as much as for the company.
• Smart, dynamic people with whom you can share the experience of building something unique.
• Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and advancement.

A Note on Recruiting Outreach

We’ve been made aware of individuals falsely claiming to represent Lendbuzz using lookalike email addresses (eg @lendbuzzcareers.com). Please note that all legitimate emails from our team come from @lendbuzz.com. We will never ask for sensitive information or conduct interviews via messaging apps.