Senior Platform Engineer & Technical Leader

Promapp; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Global perks

Paid time off

Job summary

Nintex is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own the technical strategy for a key product area, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability. You will influence multiple teams, balance hands-on coding with strategic leadership, and drive architectural decisions to deliver reliable platform capabilities.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with product managers, design leads, and other stakeholders, while maintaining a strong focus on platform reliability and scalability as part

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in Platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and implementing large-scale systems.
• Proven track record of technical leadership and influencing multiple teams.
• Experience defining technical strategy and roadmaps for complex systems.

Responsibilities

• You own technical strategy for the infrastructure of a key product area or platform.
• You drive architectural decisions and guide multiple teams to ensure consistency.
• You translate business requirements into technical plans and execution.
• You mentor engineers and drive engineering standards across teams.
• You participate in on-call rotations and incident response as a senior technical leader.
• You develop and maintain operational initiatives to deliver tactical results.

Skills

Platform

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

Technical leadership

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as code

Technical strategy

Roadmaps

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Nintex is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to own the technical strategy for a key product area, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability. You will influence multiple teams, balance hands-on coding with strategic leadership, and drive architectural decisions to deliver reliable platform capabilities.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with product managers, design leads, and other stakeholders, while maintaining a strong focus on platform reliability and scalability as part