Senior Engineering Team Lead

Senior Engineering Team Lead - Platform London, UK Office-first, 4 days per week Up to £135k The Opportunity A high-growth technology company are 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.