About the role

  • Lead platform engineering at Chain IQ, focusing on shared systems and automation for global procurement solutions. Spearhead initiatives for coherent and scalable platform foundations to enhance developer experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve shared platform components used across products and teams
  • Build and maintain common frameworks for workflow orchestration, automation and agent execution
  • Define and implement standard service templates, libraries and internal APIs
  • Establish consistent patterns for messaging, caching, state management and background processing
  • Ensure platform capabilities are easy to adopt and hard to misuse
  • Partner closely with Solution, Data and Security Architects to turn designs into working systems
  • Work with Product Engineers to reduce duplication and improve developer experience
  • Drive coherence across services by enforcing shared abstractions and patterns
  • Balance platform stability with rapid iteration as product needs evolve
  • Make explicit trade-offs between flexibility, simplicity and long-term maintainability
  • Continuously identify opportunities to reduce complexity and improve leverage across teams

Requirements

  • Full professional fluency in English (written and spoken) is mandatory
  • Strong background in building and evolving platform or shared systems
  • Experience designing abstractions that multiple teams successfully adopt
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and service-based architectures
  • Ability to reason about system behavior over time, including failure and recovery
  • Hands-on engineering mindset with a bias toward shipping usable foundations
  • Comfort working in environments where patterns are still forming
  • Clear communication and the ability to align teams around common approaches
  • Pragmatic approach to balancing ideal architecture with delivery realities

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

Job title

Platform Engineering Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

OnsitePortugal

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