Lead Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to lead the team behind a web platform used by pharma marketing teams to run and measure their campaigns.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will lead a small team of developers and a QA engineer while continuing to write code yourself. You will work closely with the CTO and Product Lead, taking features from technical design and documentation through development, release, and production.

What you’ll do

Lead a team of 2–4 developers + QA: break down tasks, review code, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring

Stay hands-on and write production code yourself

Design how features should be built: data model, API, UI, testing, and rollout

Write and maintain FRDs, architecture decisions, API contracts, and data models

Work directly with the Product Lead on priorities

Work with large-scale campaign data across PostgreSQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse and Apache Druid

Own releases, production reliability, monitoring, incident response, and debugging

Improve automated testing, observability, and development processes

Work with healthcare-professional data, including access, consent and PII requirements

Report directly to the CTO and participate in architecture and technical decisions

Requirements

2+ years as a Tech Lead, Team Lead or hands-on Engineering Manager

5+ years of experience building and shipping web products as a full-stack engineer

Strong hands-on experience with PHP / LaravelLaravel 12, PHP 8.3

Eloquent, queues, events, service providers, testing

Experience with Vue.js and working with an existing Vue codebaseVue 2/3, Vuex, Vue Router

Strong PostgreSQL knowledge: indexing, query plans, migrations on live tables

Strong SQL skills and experience with an analytical database such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake or similar

Experience working with large datasets

GCP experience: Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS

Docker and CI/CD experience, preferably GitHub Actions

Experience with automated testing and production debugging

Experience writing technical documentation and feature requirements

English B2+

Comfortable working remotely with overlap with EU time zones

AI-assisted development

AI-assisted development is an important part of the workflow. We expect you to:

Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar on a daily basis

Be comfortable reviewing and validating AI-generated code

Work with multiple coding agents in parallel using isolated branches/worktrees

Maintain project context and rules for coding agents, e.g. CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md

Use AI agents to automate recurring engineering tasks such as test generation, migrations, reports or release checks

Take full responsibility for the code that reaches production

Nice to have

Ad-tech or marketing analytics experience

Healthcare or pharma domain experience

Pulumi or Terraform

Experience migrating Vue 2 to Vue 3

TypeScript

Apache Druid

BigQuery / ClickHouse performance and cost optimization

What we offer

Fully remote work with flexible hours and EU timezone overlap

Direct collaboration with the CTO on architecture and technical standards

Paid AI tooling, including Claude Code

Work with large-scale datasets, including tables with up to 1.5 billion rows

Small, technically focused team with minimal bureaucracy

Opportunity to influence architecture and engineering practices rather than simply implement predefined tickets

About the product

The product is a marketing data platform for the pharma industry. It helps pharmaceutical brands run campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn and programmatic channels and measure their performance.

The core product is a Laravel + Vue application running on GCP, with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, BigQuery and Apache Druid behind it.