Senior Lead Software Engineer – Cloud Platform Engineering

Overview

In this Senior Lead role within the Accelerator Business Platform Team, you set technical direction across squads to deliver scalable platform services for customer-focused fintech solutions. You lead architecture and engineering standards while mentoring technical leaders, driving reliability, security, and operational excellence. You work in cross-functional squads to transform ideas into production-ready capabilities that empower customers worldwide. This role combines hands-on platform engineering with strategic leadership in a fast-growing, collaborative culture.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for platform engineering across squads to align architecture with business goals and risk controls
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and establish engineering standards and best practices
• Design and build composable, scalable infrastructure and platform services
• Operate Kubernetes-based platform services; automate self-service, CI/CD, improve reliability and security via IaC and policy-as-code
• Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to improve stability
• Provide operational leadership for production systems in a you-build-it-you-run-it model (incidents, post-incident learning, reliability)
• Lead evaluations with external vendors and internal teams to assess architecture and fit with information architecture
• Grow communities of practice to promote adoption of new technologies
• Coach and mentor engineers to build technical leadership and high performance
• Support diversity, equity, inclusion, and respectful team culture

Key requirements

• Formal training or certifications in software engineering (CKAD, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, including leading technical delivery in complex environments
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages (Go, Java, Kotlin)
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security, with ability to set and drive standards
• Proven experience in cloud-native environments and delivering Kubernetes-based deployments at meaningful scale
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

• collaboration
• curiosity
• commercial mindset
• Kubernetes-based platform services
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with policy-as-code
• Kubernetes operator pattern

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