Tech Lead - Platform Engineering

About Brite

Founded in 2019 Brite Payments is a leading open bankingpowered accounttoaccount (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 realtime 24/7 transaction processing with no delays signups or card details required. Today Brite connects with over 3800 banks in 27 European markets and is committed to delivering cuttingedge nextgeneration payment solutions that meet the markets 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!

About the role

At Brite Payments were seeking an experienced leader to drive our Platform Engineering team. In this role youll 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 knowledgesharing supporting engineers and scaling tools & practices for high adoptionrate within the department through focusing on improving the developer experience.

• Collaborate with Engineering Teams and meet their individual needs in order to enable their selfsufficiency in the full lifecycle of software development.

• Define Platform Strategy by contributing to roadmaps and architectures that balance immediate needs with longterm 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 bottomup approach to share the load and build crossfunctional capability within your team of complementary skills and personalities.

We have a flexible hybrid work model with an office in central Stockholm.

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: Handson 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 highquality platforms that fuel our next phase of growth. With your leadership well set the foundation for an exceptional future!

What we offer

• An optimistic caring and inclusive culture where you can be yourself.
• A dynamic fastpaced and innovative environment with the chance to join one of Europes hottest fintechs and learn from industry leaders.
• The opportunity to make an impact from day one in an organisation that values quick decisionmaking teamwork and results over titles.
• Exposure to a variety of verticals and use cases for our payments products working with some of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.
• An annual wellbeing and professional development allowance to invest in your personal growth.
• A team of fun skilled professionals who together raised the largest Series A ($60m) in Europe last year join colleagues who are committed to making a lasting impact.

Do you want to learn more about our recruitment process Here you can read about the hiring flow and find answers to the most frequently asked questions.