The posting
Build the platform every engineering team depends on and shape how Performativ scales through reliability, resilience, and world-class developer experience.
As our Hands-On Lead Cloud Engineer, you will lead Mission Control, our Platform Engineering and Reliability team. Mission Control creates secure, self-service platform capabilities that enable product teams to build, deploy, and operate services independently. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll spend the majority of your time building production infrastructure and platform capabilities, leading through technical contribution rather than process.
What you’ll do 📈
- Lead Mission Control while remaining deeply hands-on across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability.
- Build and evolve the default, secure-by-default platform that enables product teams to build, deploy, and operate services independently.
- Create reusable AWS CDK constructs, infrastructure standards, and golden paths that reduce complexity and improve the developer experience across engineering.
- Set the technical direction for Mission Control, making pragmatic decisions about platform evolution, reliability, and developer experience while helping the team execute.
- Strengthen our reliability practices through SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, incident tooling, and post-incident improvements that drive meaningful change.
- Treat cloud cost as a first-class engineering concern by improving visibility, eliminating waste, and designing systems that scale efficiently.
- Partner closely with our security specialists to build secure-by-default platform capabilities and continuously strengthen our security posture.
- Own the evolution of the engineering platform that enables every product team to build, deploy, and operate services independently.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and feedback to a small team of experienced platform engineers while remaining deeply involved in delivery.
What we’re looking for 🎯
- 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar production-focused environments.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on and actively contributing to code and infrastructure.
- Strong experience designing and operating production workloads on AWS, including Infrastructure as Code. Experience with AWS CDK and TypeScript is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practical application of its principles.
- A platform engineering mindset focused on building reusable capabilities, self-service, and engineering leverage.
- Strong operational judgment with experience in incident response, reliability engineering, SLOs, and continuous improvement.
- Comfort owning outcomes, making decisions in ambiguous environments, and improving engineering practices without adding unnecessary process.
- Actively leverages AI and agent-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity while applying sound engineering judgment and maintaining high quality standards.
- Experience working within fintech or other regulated industries is a plus.
Technologies you'll work with 💻
You don't need experience with every technology listed below. We care far more about strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and your ability to learn, build, and improve systems.
- Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform (bonus), and modern AWS infrastructure, networking, security, governance, and observability services.
- Engineering Tooling: GitHub Actions, Docker, container pipelines, cloud cost optimization, and observability tooling.
- Wider Engineering Stack: You'll collaborate with teams building services primarily in Golang and TypeScript, alongside React, React Native, Python, and PHP.
What we can offer you 🌱
- Trust and responsibility to shape the future of Performativ’s success in the European market from day 1.
- Join a fast-growing fintech scaleup supported by top-tier VCs.
- Work with intelligent, passionate, and driven professionals with experience from leading institutions (such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, BCG, Amazon etc).
- Accelerate your career with opportunities for professional development and leadership.
Join a Team of Fintech heroes! 🚀
Performativ is making waves in the wealth management ecosystem and is changing the way investment advisors and financial institutions do business around the world. Working at Performativ means working at a fast-paced tech scaleup with intelligent people who are passionate about their work. We are on a scaling journey beyond all metrics and expectations and can't wait to have you join us in making a real impact.
We are funded by some of the leading VC funds in the world and expectations are set to be established as a European market leader in a record amount of time.
You can read more about our product at performativ.com
We value passion 🔥
At Performativ, we are builders first. We are passionate with ambitious goals and value the time and effort people put into their work. You will be part of the family from day one, and responsible for making your mark and driving forward your vision. Autonomous work is embedded in our culture, and we are committed to ensure you have all the tools and support you need while acknowledging the importance of flexibility.
