Own the platform & infrastructure: Lead the architecture, security, and stability of our GCP platform, ensuring it is built for 100% YoY growth.
Lead the backend team: Manage and inspire a high-performance team of senior and mid-level backend engineers (3-5 people), fostering a culture of engineering excellence that balances pace with uncompromising quality.
Drive platform efficiency: Act as the primary steward for technical cost-optimisation and resource management, ensuring the platform scales efficiently as our user base grows.
Architect complex integrations: Design robust systems to handle deep integrations with external partner APIs, managing diverse authentication mechanisms and resilient data patterns.
Drive technical strategy: Act as a key partner to the CTO and Director of Engineering (currently also being hired), aligning technical execution with business objectives.
Embed operational excellence: Refine best-in-class engineering practices - including IaC via Terraform, CI/CD, and security audit readiness - to prevent major production incidents.
Lead AI workflows: Act as an authority to drive agentic workflows forwards across the team

Requirements

Proven technical leadership: Experience as a Lead or Senior Engineer, ideally having managed scaling challenges in a high-growth startup.
GCP & platform mastery: Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Backend expertise: Expert-level understanding of Node.js and TypeScript.
Integration experience: Comfortable architecting platforms that interact with diverse third-party APIs and robust authentication protocols.
People management: A passion for mentoring and managing engineers.

Benefits

Flexible working times
Work abroad for up to 90 days per year
25 days annual leave (on top of public holidays)
Take your birthday off
Take Christmas Eve off too
Generous well-being perks
An annual learning budget to support your growth
Delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare
Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way
A whole lot of fun on an exciting journey

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

GCPTerraformNode.jsTypeScriptAPI integrationauthentication protocolstechnical cost-optimisationresource managementCI/CDIaC

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringpeople managementteam managementengineering excellenceoperational excellencecommunicationinspirationcollaborationstrategic alignment