Tech Lead - Platform Engineering

at  Brite

ABOUT BRITE

Founded in 2019, Brite Payments is a leading open banking-powered account-to-account (A2A) payment provider of instant payments, payouts, and other financial services in Europe. Brite is committed to creating fast, secure, and transparent payment solutions that reduce risk for businesses and provide consumers with the best possible payment experience.
At the heart of Brite is our proprietary instant payments network, Brite IPN, which enables real-time, 24/7 transaction processing with no delays, sign-ups, or card details required. Today, Brite connects with over 3,800 banks in 27 European markets and is committed to delivering cutting-edge, next-generation payment solutions that meet the market’s evolving needs.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Brite has offices in London and Malaga and now numbers over 150 colleagues.
Want to join us on our journey? The future is Brite!

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Proven Leadership Experience: Demonstrated success leading both technical & cultural work in building enabling platforms and support systems for engineering teams.
• You have your competence in either cloud operations, or devops: You either come from a strong cloud operations background, or you have extensive experience from product development and modern ways of working.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with tools such as Terraform and automation frameworks for deployment and configuration management.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker and orchestration tools like Google Cloud Run, AWS Fargate/ECS, or similar.
• Monitoring & Logging: Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Stackdriver, Datadog) to ensure platform reliability and performance.
• CI/CD Proficiency: Excellent knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Operational Excellence: Experience applying SRE principles, with a focus on uptime, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Communication Skills: Strong communicator, with the ability to work effectively across teams to foster alignment and collaboration.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• GCP Cost Management: Experience with budgeting and optimizing cloud expenditures.
• Database Management: Knowledge of database management on GCP, including performance optimization, scalability, and security.
• Incident Management: Familiarity with incident management processes and frameworks.
• Automation Scripting: Proficiency in programming/scripting languages such as Python.
• Microservices Architecture: Strong understanding of designing and scaling microservices in a cloud environment.
  Join Brite Payments and help us empower our engineering teams to build high-quality platforms that fuel our next phase of growth. With your leadership, we’ll set the foundation for an exceptional future!

ABOUT THE ROLE

At Brite Payments, we’re seeking an experienced leader to drive our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you’ll lead the team in providing a platform for our engineering teams to build their products upon, and that the team operates effectively as a support and enabling function in line with Team Topologies.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a Tech Lead for Platform Engineering, you will:

• Lead the Platform Engineering Team in its daily work in agile methodologies, solution discovery, technical implementations, deliveries, knowledge-sharing, supporting engineers, and scaling tools & practices for high adoption-rate within the department through focusing on improving the developer experience.
• Collaborate with Engineering Teams and meet their individual needs in order to enable their self-sufficiency in the full lifecycle of software development.
• Define Platform Strategy by contributing to roadmaps and architectures that balance immediate needs with long-term scalability and sustainability.
• Drive Platform Automation by improving cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and security, with a focus on minimizing operational overhead.
• Facilitate Best Practices in GCP, ensuring the team leverages tools and methodologies that maximize scalability, reliability, and security.
• Foster a Culture of Continuous Improvement by supporting teams in adopting DevOps and SRE methodologies to streamline operations and boost delivery speed.
• Mentor and Coach Team Members to foster technical growth, to maintain a supportive & collaborative engineering culture, to encourage leadership, and distribute responsibilities effectively. As a Tech Lead, you will empower team members to take on ownership of key initiatives, nurture a bottom-up approach to share the load and build cross-functional capability within your team of complementary skills and personalities.