AI-Native Platform Engineering Lead

NEXT Ventures; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NEXT Ventures, operating FundedNext, is hiring a Platform Engineering Lead responsible for the global trading platform infrastructure and the squad that keeps it fast, reliable, and secure. You will set technical direction for scalability, reliability, and architecture, translate business growth into engineering strategy, and build a culture of high-performance across squads.

This role requires hands-on leadership with PHP/Laravel, Node.js, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, microservices, and a relentless

Qualifications

• Senior Platform Engineer with leadership experience and a track record of scaling complex systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise across AWS, containers, and microservices.
• Proven ability to drive reliability, performance, and cost optimisations at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the Platform Engineering Squad and sprint cadences, delivering platform work in alignment with product delivery.
• Drive scalability, reliability, and security across the FundedNext platform.
• Mentor engineers and foster a performance-obsessed culture across squads.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE / infrastructure

Leadership

PHP/Laravel

Node.js

Next.js

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Monitoring/Observability

Security/BC-DR

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch/ELK

Datadog

Job description

NEXT Ventures, operating FundedNext, is hiring a Platform Engineering Lead responsible for the global trading platform infrastructure and the squad that keeps it fast, reliable, and secure. You will set technical direction for scalability, reliability, and architecture, translate business growth into engineering strategy, and build a culture of high-performance across squads.

This role requires hands-on leadership with PHP/Laravel, Node.js, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, microservices, and a relentless