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Platform Engineering Team Lead at Lendbuzz · Trevo
At Lendbuzz, we believe financial opportunity should be more personalized and fair. We develop innovative technologies that provide underserved and overlooked borrowers with better access to credit. From our employees to our dealers, partners, and borrowers, we’ve built a company and a culture around a resolute belief in the promise and power of diversity. We value independent and critical thinking.
Our Platform Engineering group builds internal tools for over a 100 Lendbuzz engineers in Boston & Tel Aviv.
We treat the platform as a product: our engineers are our users, we actively collect their feedback, we measure whether what we built is impactful for the organization, and we continuously improve based on feedback and metrics.
This position is a unique hybrid of a hands-on technical developer & leader with a highly analytical developer focused product manager.
> Note: Prior management experience is not required—we are happy to grow a strong technical candidate into the leadership aspect of the role.
What you'll do
~50% hands on development
Work together with your manager, other engineering managers, service owners and champions from various teams to understand their pains and prioritize the teams’ tasks accordingly.
Lead a team of engineers with a computer science background, keep their vision focused and aligned with management, teach them how to lead projects effectively, collect feedback and give good service to the engineers of the company
Build decentralized ecosystems that are very easy to contribute to with vibe coding (Backstage, CLI tools, Microservice templates, Self Service, HELM Charts values, etc)
Drive high-impact, multi-team technical initiatives from ideation to delivery by establishing clear technical standards, defining trackable compliance metrics while securing the buy-in of other engineering leaders
Lead Kubernetes (K8s) initiatives.
Manage research of cutting edge cloud native technologies
Requirements
Computer Science degree from a leading university
5+ years of software development experience.
2+ years of experience developing applications on K8S using HELM/Kustomize/Crossplane/CDK/Other
Understand the concepts of Platform Engineering well
Strong backend development skills in a modern languages:
Typescript/Python with Asyncio/Go/Rust/Modern C#/Kotlin.
Proficiency with Claude/Codex which includes writing skills, system prompts & delivering features across multiple repos.
Nice to have
Production experience running services on Kubernetes..
Proven experience writing design documents, presenting them to engineering leaders and answering hard technical questions in fluent English.
Experience writing and maintaining internal tools with an impact on developer experience such as:
Experience working with open source K8S charts such as:
Keycloak, Debezium, Airflow, Temporal, a feature flag system or LangSmith
What we offer:
A culture that values product ownership, collaborative architectural planning, and building wins for your resume/portfolio as much as for the company.
Smart, dynamic people with whom you can share the experience of building something unique.
Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and advancement.
A Note on Recruiting Outreach
We’ve been made aware of individuals falsely claiming to represent Lendbuzz using lookalike email addresses (eg @lendbuzzcareers.com). Please note that all legitimate emails from our team come from @lendbuzz.com. We will never ask for sensitive information or conduct interviews via messaging apps.