Director of Platform Engineering

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Director of Platform & Performance Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the performance, scalability, and reliability roadmap for the backend platform
• Establish practical performance engineering practices and eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Recruit and develop a high-performing engineering team focused on backend platform excellence

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of backend engineering experience, including senior technical leadership roles
• Deep hands-on expertise with Java (JEE, Spring, or comparable enterprise frameworks)
• Strong proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, or services development
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and scalable SaaS architectures
• Experience designing and implementing load tests