Engineering Lead, Platform Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Koalafi, we believe in a world where no one has to put an important purchase on hold. That’s why we’re making it easier for more people to pay for big purchases over time.</p> <p>Retailers across the country rely on us to offer flexible lease-to-own financing to their non-prime consumers, while increasing sales and strengthening customer loyalty. Their 2M+ customers love us because we provide a flexible way for them to make payments and give them an opportunity to improve their credit. Our 200+ Koalafi teammates enjoy inspiring and challenging work that accelerates their careers.</p> <p>Interested in learning more about how we’re transforming the financing experience and joining our team?</p></div><p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>We’re hiring a hands-on Engineering Lead to join our Platform Engineering team. You’ll lead a small team while remaining actively involved in technical design, implementation, and delivery.</p> <p>Partnering closely with our Cloud Architect, you’ll translate platform strategy and architectural direction into executable work, make day-to-day technical decisions within the team’s scope, and help the team deliver high-quality, reliable platform capabilities predictably.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <p><strong>Lead platform engineering and delivery</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the team’s day-to-day technical execution, planning, prioritization, and delivery.</li> <li>Translate platform strategy and architectural direction into a clear, actionable backlog and break complex initiatives into achievable phases.</li> <li>Use AI tools in your own work and help engineers use and build with AI effectively and responsibly, including shared platform capabilities for approved AI models and services.</li> <li>Stay hands-on with design, implementation, code review, troubleshooting, and delivery while serving as a technical anchor for the team.</li> <li>Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automation, APIs, and self-service developer workflows that improve safety, consistency, and developer velocity.</li> <li>Contribute directly to our AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform-based platform, improving established patterns and platform capabilities.</li> <li>Improve observability and operational readiness through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, SLOs, alerting, and production-readiness standards.</li> <li>Partner with Architecture, Security, and engineering teams to create secure, reusable paved roads and technical guardrails.</li> <li>Maintain visibility into timelines, dependencies, tradeoffs, and risks, removing blockers and communicating clearly with engineering leadership and partners.</li> </ul>