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Platform Engineering Lead

Remote
Any
Actively hiring

Platform Engineering Lead

Barclays
Remote
Any
Barclays
Actively hiring

hackajob is partnering with Barclays to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 

Join Barclays as a Platform Engineering Lead, where you’ll be responsible for driving the development of our internal Developer Portal. This role leverages your full-stack technical expertise to create the digital front door to our engineering ecosystem—a unified platform that centralizes access to engineering tools, documentation, and resources.

As a hands-on individual contributor, you will lead end-to-end development, from frontend interfaces to backend services and the underlying infrastructure. Your focus will be on building a cohesive technical solution that seamlessly integrates with our existing ecosystem, delivering an outstanding developer experience. You'll guide the engineering team through implementation, balancing technical excellence with practical delivery timelines.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

  • Significant software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
  • Backend development experience with enterprise-grade technologies (ideally Spring Boot)
  • Infrastructure as Code and cloud platform experience (ideally AWS)
  • Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams

Highly valued additional skills include:

  • A strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
  • Experience mentoring and developing engineering talent
  • Frontend development experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular)

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

hackajob is partnering with Barclays to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 

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