- Company Name
- Picnic
- Job Title
- Engineering Lead
- Job Description
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Job Title: Engineering Lead
Role Summary: Lead the end‑to‑end technical execution of Picnic’s platform, driving architecture, reliability, scalability, and production quality across infrastructure, data pipelines, real‑time services, and APIs.
Expactations: Deliver high‑quality, production‑grade systems; own the engineering roadmap; enforce best practices in architecture, DevOps, observability, CI/CD, and operations; balance short‑term delivery with long‑term maintainability; communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the engineering roadmap, turning prototypes into dependable production systems.
- Provide technical leadership for platform infrastructure, data pipelines, applied modelling, real‑time services, and APIs.
- Serve as architectural steward, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Champion system design best practices, DevOps, observability, automation, CI/CD, and production operations.
- Maintain high standards for service guarantees, data freshness, versioning, and operational correctness.
- Make key technical decisions and unblock execution across the stack.
- Evolve the platform to support external customers and partners with clear uptime, latency, and trust expectations.
Required Skills:
- Hands‑on experience delivering complex systems in startup/scale‑up environments.
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture and infrastructure engineering.
- Proven ability to build and operate production services with stringent reliability, latency, correctness, and cost control.
- Strong judgment on trade‑offs, technical debt, and operational risk.
- Familiarity with machine‑learning concepts and production model deployment.
- Excellent communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent cloud certification is highly desirable.