DevOps Lead, PaaS Platform on AWS

83zero Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth startup is looking for a Technical Lead for its PaaS platform in Central London. You will own the technical vision of a serverless, event-driven system on AWS, leading a distributed engineering team. Responsibilities include architecting high-scale systems, driving CI/CD practices, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have 7+ years in software engineering, strong leadership skills, and expertise in serverless architectures. Enjoy competitive pay, equity, and a culture of autonomy and innovation in a hybrid work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Meaningful equity

Hybrid working culture

Real autonomy and rapid progression

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in DevOps or Technical Lead roles.
• Experience building both front-end apps and backend dashboards.
• Deep expertise in serverless / event-driven architecture on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimise a high-scale, cloud-native platform.
• Drive CI / CD, automation, observability, and reliability.
• Design and maintain secure, performant public APIs.

Skills

Serverless architecture

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Leadership

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Backend development

Frontend development

Tools

AWS

Node.js

Go

Python

Java

Job description

A high-growth startup is looking for a Technical Lead for its PaaS platform in Central London. You will own the technical vision of a serverless, event-driven system on AWS, leading a distributed engineering team. Responsibilities include architecting high-scale systems, driving CI/CD practices, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have 7+ years in software engineering, strong leadership skills, and expertise in serverless architectures. Enjoy competitive pay, equity, and a culture of autonomy and innovation in a hybrid work environment.