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Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering

Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering

Lead Any Warsaw, Poland Contract Posted 3 months ago

Skills & stack

Languages

Java Python

Tools & Infra

GCP Kafka Kubernetes PostgreSQL

Skills

ClickHouse

About the role

RTB House is hiring an Engineering Team Leader for Platform Engineering, a lead-level role based in Warsaw, Poland. You will guide the infrastructure supporting a Bidding Platform that processes over 20 million requests per second. The team provides deployment, monitoring, databases, load balancing and self-service capabilities for other engineering teams.

Work format

Cooperation is based on a B2B contract. C1-level English is required.

Skills and tools

Java
Python
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Aerospike
Memcached
GCP
BigQuery
MinIO
Kafka
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
Jenkins
Graphite

What to prepare

Prepare a leadership example showing how you delegated technical ownership and mentored engineers.
Outline a platform rollout, including its usage contract and how you guided engineering teams through adoption.
Bring a performance-analysis walkthrough explaining your estimates, experiments and production findings.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor and grow a team of 8-10 systems and backend engineers.
Own the platform roadmap, prioritizing efficiency, reliability, scalability and security.
Shape the team's evolving scope and delegate platform areas to senior engineers.
Deliver self-service platform capabilities with clear usage contracts.
Use experiments and evidence to guide technical decisions.
Contribute to IT-wide capacity planning as the platform scales.
Own on-call alarm routing and reduce noisy alerts; duty rotation participation is not required.

Requirements

At least 2 years of technical leadership experience, including leading project teams.
Hands-on systems engineering experience covering distributed systems, deployment, monitoring, databases and load balancing.
Understanding of concurrent programming and systems spanning hardware, software and algorithms.
Performance analysis skills, from theoretical estimates to production optimization, plus a programming and code-review background.
Experience building platforms for engineering teams, defining usage contracts and guiding cross-team adoption.
End-to-end technical ownership, cross-team communication and a self-directed approach.
Experience with Java, Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and GCP.
Polish fluency to meet the role's language requirement.