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 24 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.