Developer Platform Engineer

Head of Engineering - Developer Experience & Platform (f/m/d)

Awin

Head of Engineering - Developer Experience & Platform Awin is seeking an exceptional engineering leader to shape the future of how our engineers build, ship, and operate software at scale. As Head of Engineering – Developer Experience & Platform, you will own the end-to-end developer experience strategy, drive the adoption of AI-native engineering practices, modernise our cloud platform, and lead the teams and tooling that enable Awin's engineering organisation to work at its best. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of engineering excellence, platform strategy, and AI innovation. You will define and deliver the developer experience (DevEx) vision for Awin, ensuring our engineers have the tools, environments, processes, and culture to be highly productive and deeply satisfied in their work. You will own our platform strategy on AWS, lead FinOps practices, and spearhead the organisation-wide rollout of AI-augmented and agentic development workflows. You will act as a trusted internal champion for engineers – gathering data-driven insight, translating it into organisation-wide improvements, and working hand-in-hand with engineering leadership, product, and stakeholders to make change happen and allow our Product teams to deliver value to our customers at scale. The right candidate has strong hands-on experience with modern AI-driven software development and building developer-centric cloud platforms at scale. This is a senior but hands-on role within the Engineering organisation, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Key Tasks & Responsibilities   Developer Experience Strategy & Tooling * Own and evolve Awin's Developer Experience programme – defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for DevEx improvement across the engineering organisation * Identify friction points, productivity blockers, and systemic inefficiencies through data, qualitative research, and direct engagement with engineering teams, other Heads of Engineering or Engineering Managers * Drive organisation-wide improvements to technology, tooling, and engineering processes, building consensus and alignment with key stakeholders across product, engineering, security, and operations. * Establish and track DevEx metrics and KPIs (e.g. DORA metrics, developer satisfaction scores), using them to demonstrate impact and guide investment decisions. * Own the developer tools portfolio and associated budgets – evaluating, procuring, and retiring tools to ensure engineers have best-in-class tooling without unnecessary cost or complexity. * Lead strategic assessment and rollout of new developer tooling, including CI/CD platforms, IDE capabilities, code quality and security tools. AI-Native Development & Agentic Workflows * Lead Awin's AI engineering rollout – defining the strategy for AI-native software development, establishing standards, and scaling adoption across the engineering organisation. * Evaluate and implement AI-augmented development tools including AI coding assistants, agentic development environments, automated code review, test generation, and intelligent CI/CD pipelines. * Champion modern AI-native software development best practices and drive continuous evaluation of the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape. * Design and deliver enablement programmes – training, communities of practice, documentation, and hands-on workshops – to accelerate AI fluency and confidence across engineering teams. * Measure and report on the impact of AI adoption on developer productivity, code quality, and time-to-market. Cloud Platform Optimisation * Lead the strategy and execution of cloud platform standardisation across Awin's AWS estate, establishing golden paths, reference architectures, and platform abstractions that improve developer experience and reduce cognitive load. * Drive cloud migration efforts, infrastructure modernisation initiatives, partnering with Product teams to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and security posture (including platform-wide Incident Management, SRE * Own AWS cost management and FinOps practices – establishing budgeting frameworks, implementing cost allocation and tagging strategies, identifying and acting on optimisation opportunities, and providing transparent reporting to leadership. * Build out internal developer platform capabilities to abstract cloud complexity and accelerate developer self-service. * Ensure cloud platform decisions are made with developer experience as a primary consideration alongside cost efficiency, security, and scalability. Leadership & Organisational Impact * Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team spanning developer experience, platform engineering, and tooling functions. * Act as a collaborative, influential engineering leader, shaping Awin's technical culture, engineering standards, and ways of working. * Contribute to the engineering leadership team, participating in strategic planning, headcount discussions, and broader organisational design. Skills & Experience * Significant experience in and passion for software engineering, with hands-on coding background in one or more major languages (e.g. Java, TypeScript). * Strong understanding of AI-native software development – including AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot), agentic development workflows, and LLM-integrated toolchains. * Proven leadership experience in developer experience, platform engineering, developer productivity, or a related engineering leadership role within a mid-to-large scale technology organisation. * Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, engineering best practices, and what makes engineering teams highly productive. * Demonstrable experience leading and improving CI/CD practices, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling ecosystems. * Strong background in AWS – comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), container platforms, serverless patterns, and cloud-native architectures. * Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management, including budgeting, tagging strategies, and cost optimisation at scale. * Track record of successfully delivering organisation-wide change programmes in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders. * Experience designing and using developer experience metrics frameworks (e.g. DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4) to measure and improve developer productivity. * Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and grow engineering teams in a fast-paced, distributed environment. * Strong commercial awareness – experience managing budgets, building business cases, and making tool and investment decisions with clear ROI thinking. * Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery; comfortable operating from vision through to execution. * Experience working in global, distributed engineering organisations across multiple time zones and cultures. Our Offer * Flexi-Week: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing by offering you a four-day Flexi-Week (with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week) at full pay, with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. * Flexi-office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our hybrid/remote working scheme which is designed to foster a culture of mutual trust and working flexibility. * Work Expense Contribution & Remote Working Furniture: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs, as well as a furniture package to support you in setting up a comfortable workspace when working from home. * Health and Wellbeing: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can focus on your mental and physical wellbeing. * Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite, Awin Academy, to cover a wide range of skills that support your professional and personal growth, with trainings conveniently packaged to help your overall development. * Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer recognition programme. We are hiring in multiple countries for this role. Additional benefits, including health and wellbeing offerings, will be discussed during the initial interview. Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture. Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities. Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why   Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development. #LI-RS1

Senior Platform Engineer

LemFi

LemFi (Series B) is building the go-to financial app for the Global South. Moving to a new country shouldn’t mean starting from zero. That's why our team of 400+ spanning 20+ countries is building a financial ecosystem that helps immigrants stay connected to home, build stability, and create wealth regardless of where they are from or where they live. What began as fast, affordable remittances is now evolving into a complete platform for multi-currency accounts, payments, credit, and long-term financial growth. With millions of users across the globe, we process over $1B in monthly transactions to 30+ countries, proving that borders shouldn't limit financial opportunity. ABOUT THE ROLE LemFi is the financial engine for people the world wasn't built to serve. We move money, store it, lend it and protect it across ~21 countries - and the platform team is the force multiplier that lets every other engineering team do that at pace. This is the only platform hire we are making this year, which tells you how much we expect from this person. You will design, build and own our internal developer platform: a self-service, AI-powered environment that treats internal engineers as your customers and makes their experience of building on our cloud infrastructure genuinely fast and frictionless. You will touch everything from cloud cost efficiency to developer tooling to the golden paths that let product teams ship without waiting on ops tickets. If you have strong opinions about what great platform engineering looks like and a track record of building things from scratch, not just operating what someone else designed, this is the role. WHAT YOU'LL BUILD AND OWN * Design and build a self-service internal developer platform - golden paths, templates, guardrails - so engineers can provision, deploy and operate services without raising a ticket. * Embed AI-driven automation into the platform: intelligent cost optimisation, anomaly detection, auto-remediation and developer productivity tooling that actually gets used. * Own cloud infrastructure on AWS - architecture, cost efficiency, reliability and security posture - with clear metrics and accountability for outcomes, not just uptime. * Act as the internal product manager for the platform: talk to engineers regularly, collect requirements, prioritise by impact on developer velocity and run a visible roadmap. * Set and enforce platform standards - IaC, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets management - turning good practice into the default, not the exception. * Identify and fix the biggest sources of friction in the engineering workflow, using data to prioritise and presenting findings to engineering leadership. * Work lean and autonomously: this is a high-ownership role on a small team, so you will need to push things to production yourself, not coordinate others to do it. YOUR EXPERIENCE * Proven track record building an internal developer platform or developer experience function from scratch - not just maintaining one someone else built. * Deep AWS expertise: you have designed cost-efficient, production-grade cloud architectures and you can defend every line of your Terraform. * Strong DevOps and platform engineering fundamentals: Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability stacks, IaC, and the judgement to know when to use each. * Experience treating internal engineers as customers - gathering requirements, running a backlog, measuring adoption - not just shipping tools and hoping people use them. * Comfortable working without a spec: you have operated in fast-moving environments where you set the direction as much as you follow it. * Proficient in at least one scripting or backend language (Python, Go, or equivalent) and confident building automation and tooling, not just configuring managed services. * You actively build AI-powered tooling into platform and infrastructure workflows - cost anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, automated runbooks - not just use AI in your editor. NICE TO HAVE * Previous fintech or regulated-industry experience where security and compliance constraints shaped your platform decisions. * Hands-on experience with platform engineering frameworks such as Backstage or Port, or building a comparable internal portal. * Exposure to multi-region or multi-currency infrastructure at scale, ideally serving markets in Africa, Europe or the Americas. WHY JOIN LEMFI? Love shouldn’t be expensive, yet those working hardest for their families often face predatory fees and banking exclusion. We're changing this. At LemFi, you won’t be just a cog in a machine. Whether designing products, scaling operations, or telling our story, you’ll tackle complex challenges with real, immediate impact. Your work goes beyond metrics - it puts money back in families’ pockets and offers access to the previously excluded. Join us to make a meaningful difference, where high performance is a lifeline for millions. You can connect with us on LinkedIn and Instagram and if you haven't already, download the app on the App Store or Google Play.

Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

charles

PLATFORM ENGINEER (M/W/D) PERMANENT EMPLOYEE, FULL-TIME · BERLIN (HYBRID)  THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE From socks, and petfood, to cosmetics, charles is helping countless brands reach their loyal customers every day, one conversation at a time. As a Platform Engineer at charles, you’ll help drive our product and infrastructure forward, enabling us to revolutionize conversational commerce. You’re a generalist with a passion for infrastructure and operations. You’ll work closely with the other Engineers to build scalable, high-performing systems, while improving system architecture, resolving tech debt, and ensuring seamless user experiences. Your contributions will result in reliable, data-driven solutions that support millions of users and push the boundaries of messaging-driven commerce. THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING You'll build and operate our internal developer platform: the core services, APIs, and infrastructure that every product team builds on top of. That means writing software, not just configuring it, and standing up infrastructure that holds up under real production load. * You will be a part of a team that designs, develops, and operates the core services, APIs, and infrastructure that every product team builds on top of. Examples: building a billing API, maintaining Kubernetes operators, building an authentication broker, optimizing performance in our core monolith, and improving security in our link shortening service. * You will regularly partner with product teams to investigate issues, learn their use cases, and ship platform changes that hold up in production. * You'll join our on-call rotation as part of our "you build it, you run it" philosophy. * You'll have real room to drive cost and reliability initiatives that have measurable, company-wide impact. * You'll build the automations that make our whole software development lifecycle faster and more robust. YOU'LL FIT GREAT WITH THESE SKILLS AND VALUES * 3+ years of software engineering experience. You're a generalist - comfortable moving between writing a service, debugging infrastructure, and improving a pipeline in the same week. * You can build and ship production services in Go or TypeScript; not just scripts and glue. You also know Bash and have the judgment to pick the right tool instead of forcing your favorite one. * You can build and operate cloud infrastructure that survives real production workloads, ideally on GCP. * You've worked with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools, and you know what a healthy and efficient pipeline looks like. * You have a solid grasp of scalable system design, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and how to roll out infrastructure changes. * You're comfortable with remote work and asynchronous communication. You also know that good collaboration needs visibility and cooperation, not just output. * You use AI tools effectively without handing over the steering wheel. * Product and business sense: you understand customer needs and focus on solving the right problems, not just building technically interesting solutions. * You're a self-directed learner. You don't need to know our whole stack on day one, but when you hit something unfamiliar, you dig in, ask good questions, and follow through. We'll give you room and context to grow; you bring the drive. Meeting all requirements is not necessary to apply. We encourage candidates who meet some but not all of these qualifications to submit their application. THINGS WE OFFER * Working on challenging and impactful projects at the forefront of one of the most innovative industries in Europe * Collaborating with some of the leading experts in Conversational Commerce and disrupting a fast-growing industry * Joining forces with a unique community of Tech, Product, Sales, Success, and Marketing experts committed to building the best product in Conversational Commerce. * High autonomy and visibility across the business with the option to own and drive new initiatives * Celebrating our major and micro-wins as well as getting to know each other better at regular team-building events * Sharing VSOP (virtual stock options) in the ownership and success of Charles * Working in a vibrant office in the heart of Berlin overlooking the Wall memorial * Flexible working model: Hybrid setup with remote work options and flexible hours * Earning a competitive compensation package What else we offer? * Urban Sports Club membership * Mental Health support through OpenUp * Free company lunch on Thursdays * A friendly, open, multicultural work environment * Dog-friendly office * Discounts on BVG tickets About us It’s better to have a conversation charles is a conversational AI and CRM for consumer brands that attracts, converts, services, and retains customers via AI agents, marketing automations, bulk campaigns, or an inbox for human agents. We help brands to maximize customer engagement and revenue through conversational channels such as WhatsApp. Businesses can reach customers in an interactive way, collect data to expand customer understanding and guide them to targeted offers that convert. charles’ AI Agents deliver hyperpersonalized experiences at scale while ensuring enterprise-grade security and GDPR compliance. Founded by Kapten & Son co-founder, Artjem Weissbeck, and ex-McKinsey ecommerce lead, Andreas Tussing. charles is backed by Salesforce Ventures, Accel and HV Capital and has raised over EUR 30 million to build the global leader in conversational marketing SaaS for global consumer brands. Charles and diversity: be yourself and no-one else Different perspectives bring innovation and richer work environments. We’re committed to building an inclusive company where you always feel like you belong, whatever your age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, status or neurodiversity. These values sit at the heart of our hiring process, so we can create a welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and heard.