Platform Lead

Job description

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. Our track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made us a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology. We are passionate about our purpose-driven mission to improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base. **Opportunity for impact** Newfire Global Partners, a leader in developing disruptive healthcare technology, collaborates with Fortune 500 companies and high-growth start-ups to drive transformation. **What’s the project?** Our client is a well-established company in the luxury retail industry undergoing a significant technology transformation. Newfire is taking ownership of the client’s engineering ecosystem, including its core e-commerce platform, multiple online storefronts, and ERP integrations, with the goal of modernizing the platform and dramatically accelerating software delivery. As part of this engagement, we’re building a team of experienced engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, improving large production systems, and working through real-world technical debt. This is not a greenfield project—it’s an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by increasing reliability, scalability, and development velocity across a business-critical platform. **About the role** As a Platform Lead, you will be a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping and evolving the delivery and infrastructure foundations that the inherited platform currently lacks. You will guide and mentor a small group of platform and application engineers while remaining deeply involved in design and implementation. You will define the technical strategy for CI/CD, environment management, observability, and platform reliability, and ensure that practices are consistently applied across teams. You will help establish CI/CD pipelines, branch protection, secrets management, infrastructure as code, container workflows, and operational guardrails using tools such as GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, and Docker. You will work directly with under-tested, undocumented brownfield systems, take end-to-end ownership of what reaches production, and document architecture, processes, and operational practices as you build and refine them. AI-native delivery is central to the role: you will help make repositories ready for tools such as Claude Code and CodeRabbit by introducing effective context, automated review, testing, and developer workflows. Success in this role requires strong English communication skills, a modernization mindset, and proven experience transforming immature engineering environments into secure, reliable, and scalable delivery platforms, while providing technical leadership and guidance to the wider engineering team.