Platform Engineering Lead — Scale & Reliability (Hybrid)

Cheil USA; Plano (TX); Híbrido; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cheil USA is seeking a player-coach to lead the Platform Engineering Team in Plano, TX. The role blends leadership with hands-on contributions to the codebase, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability of core web services and data layers.

You'll mentor engineers, set standards, and plan capacity for growing user bases while working in a hybrid model requiring in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Plano.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years in people management.
• Deep experience with a modern web stack (TypeScript/Node or Python) and databases.
• Experience scaling systems through growth in traffic and data.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers.
• Stay hands-on with architecture, code review, and critical-path development.
• Own reliability, performance, and scalability of core web services and data layer.
• Establish engineering standards, on-call practices, and healthy delivery cadence.
• Plan capacity and architecture for systems with larger user bases.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Team management

Architecture

Code review

Systems scaling

Incident management

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Security

Prioritization

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Herramientas

TypeScript/Node

Python

SQL/NoSQL databases

REST

GraphQL

Cloud platforms

Descripción del empleo

Cheil USA is seeking a player-coach to lead the Platform Engineering Team in Plano, TX. The role blends leadership with hands-on contributions to the codebase, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability of core web services and data layers.

You'll mentor engineers, set standards, and plan capacity for growing user bases while working in a hybrid model requiring in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Plano.