Lead Backend & Platform Engineer

Tech Lead (Backend) 🕙 Role details: This is a full time role 💷 Salary: €92,000 - €110,000 🌍 Location: Ireland - Remote The role We are looking for a Platform Engineering Lead to own the technical implementation and scalability of our cloud infrastructure. As the technical authority for our backend team, you will be responsible for ensuring our Digital Pathway Platform is architected for seamless scalability across international health systems. This is a pivotal leadership position where you will drive technical excellence, directly impacting the lives of millions of patients by enabling a new asynchronous and remote operating model for healthcare. What You’ll Do Own the platform & infrastructure: Lead the architecture, security, and stability of our GCP platform, ensuring it is built for 100% YoY growth. Lead the backend team: Manage and inspire a high-performance team of senior and mid-level backend engineers (3-5 people), fostering a culture of engineering excellence that balances pace with uncompromising quality. Drive platform efficiency: Act as the primary steward for technical cost-optimisation and resource management, ensuring the platform scales efficiently as our user base grows. Architect complex integrations: Design robust systems to handle deep integrations with external partner APIs, managing diverse authentication mechanisms and resilient data patterns. Drive technical strategy: Act as a key partner to the CTO and Director of Engineering (currently also being hired), aligning technical execution with business objectives. Embed operational excellence: Refine best-in-class engineering practices - including IaC via Terraform, CI/CD, and security audit readiness - to prevent major production incidents. Lead AI workflows: Act as an authority to drive agentic workflows forwards across the team Why This Role is Unique We are building a new operating model for healthcare in which care is delivered remotely, asynchronously and increasingly personalised. You