Team Lead Platform Engineering

We’re Capital on Tap 👋 💳 Capital on Tap was founded with the mission to help small business owners and make their lives easier. Today, we provide an all-in-one business credit card & spend management platform that helps business owners save time and money. Capital on Tap proudly serves over 200,000 businesses across the world and our goal is to help 1 million small businesses by 2030. 📍 London (Moorgate) | 🏢 2 Days in the Office Cloud Platform Engineering / Platform Operations 🚀 As the Cloud Platform team scales, we are evolving our infrastructure to meet the diverse needs of a global engineering effort. We aren’t just building a platform; we are redefining the developer experience and pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve. What You’ll Be Doing 🗃️ - Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow. - Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency. - Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects. - Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments. - Stay hands on in Cloud and Platform engineering, leading by example at a technical level. - Defining and enforcing platform engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation. - Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes. - Contribute to product decisions, bringing a platform perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability. - Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers. - Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start. Our Values & Culture 🌞 - Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly. - Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage. - Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard. - Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done. - Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback. Diversity & Inclusion 🌈 We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.