blp-digital - Team Lead Platform Core Product

• 1. Proven management experience leading a team of senior engineers (5+), including hiring, performance management, and career development • 2. Deep MySQL knowledge — query optimization, indexing, replication, and performance tuning under real load • 3. Experience operating production systems: on-call, incident response, observability, postmortems • 4. Experience with functional programming concepts and languages. Your understanding of software quality goes beyond aesthetics and best practices • 5. Your decisions are not limited by knowledge: you are comfortable with continuous studying to ensure you make the best choices • 6. You are able to think outside of specific languages and frameworks • 7. Track record of establishing engineering principles and raising the bar on code quality, correctness, and testing • 8. Comfort working across team boundaries — you can build alignment, navigate competing priorities, and get things done without formal authority over other teams • 9. Excellent written and verbal communication • 2. Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams specifically • 3. Background scaling systems with high concurrency or large data volumes • 4. Experience hiring senior engineers in competitive markets • 1. You stay technical. You don't drift into pure management — you read code, write code, and earn your team's respect through technical credibility. • 2. You set high standards and hold the line on them, kindly but firmly. • 3. You're a multiplier. Your team ships more and better because of how you lead, not just what you build personally. • 4. You think in systems — both technical and organizational.