Senior Manager | Platform Engineering & API Ecosystems

At Foodhub, the Order & Transaction Platform is the heart of our service. It’s the engine that processes millions of daily requests, connecting people to the food they love with unwavering reliability, speed, and financial integrity. We are continuously enhancing our core platform with cloud-native principles, event-driven capabilities, and AI-ready features to power our global growth 🌍.

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative engineering leader to guide the future of our platform and API ecosystems. This role is a unique blend of strategic leadership, architectural vision, and dedicated mentorship. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of real-time commerce at scale, nurture a world-class engineering team, and build a platform that sets new standards for digital transactions.

🚀 How You'll Make an Impact

Architectural & Platform Leadership

• Guide the architectural evolution

  of our event-driven microservices for ordering, payments, reconciliation, and partner integrations 🔗.

• Architect systems for financial accuracy

  and auditability, using patterns like CQRS, event sourcing, and ledger-based models 📒.

• Cultivate a thriving, modern API ecosystem

  (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), establishing best practices for schema governance and backward compatibility 🌐.

• Orchestrate the real-time data and event streams

  that are foundational to fraud detection, recommendations, and operational analytics 📊.

Building for Scale & Reliability

• Uphold our commitment to five-nines reliability

  for our most mission-critical systems 🕒.

• Thoughtfully address complex challenges

  in concurrency, partitioning, and consistency across distributed services 🔄.

• Implement sophisticated fault-tolerance strategies

  —such as circuit breakers, idempotency, and backpressure handling—to ensure system resilience under extreme load 🛡️.

• Champion and embed modern SRE practices

  , including chaos engineering, observability-first design, and automated failover ⚙️.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead, guide, and mentor our platform and microservice engineering teams

  , fostering a supportive and high-performing environment 🌎.

• Lead by example

  , blending hands-on technical guidance in design reviews and prototyping with visionary leadership and strategy 💡.

• Nurture an inclusive culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning

  where every team member can thrive 📚.

• Act as a key mentor for engineers across the organization

  , elevating our collective expertise in distributed system design and best practices 🎯.

✅ What You'll Bring to the Team

We believe great leaders come from diverse backgrounds and value the unique skills each person brings. This role is a great fit if you have:

• Significant experience (e.g., 10+ years)

  in backend or platform engineering, including a formal leadership role managing high-performing teams.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles

  , with domain expertise in areas like ordering, payments, reconciliation, and data integrity 🔐.

• Fluency with modern backend technologies

  , particularly Node.js/TypeScript, applied within cloud-native, serverless-first architectures ☁️.

• A demonstrated history of building and operating highly reliable systems

  that handle millions of daily transactions 📈.

• A collaborative leadership style

  : you are comfortable guiding complex architectural discussions, providing hands-on support during production issues, and are passionate about mentoring and developing engineers 🤝.

🌟 Skills We Value

Our technical environment is always evolving, and we value continuous learning and growth. Experience with the following technologies and concepts is highly relevant:

• 💻 Modern Backend Development:

  Advanced TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js/NestJS; a strong commitment to testing 🧪 and mature CI/CD ⚙️ practices.

• ☁️ Cloud-Native Infrastructure & Data Stores:

  AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS/SNS, API Gateway; expertise with both relational & NoSQL databases 🗄️, including schema design & optimisation 📊.

• 🔄 Event-Driven Systems:

  Experience with Kafka, Pulsar, or Kinesis; familiarity with event sourcing, CQRS, and stream processing ⚡.

• 🏗️ Architecture & APIs:

  Deep understanding of microservices 🧱, domain-driven design, and fault-tolerant systems; proficiency with REST, GraphQL, or gRPC; and experience with schema governance & API versioning 🔗.

• 🛠️ Platform & Operations:

  Knowledge of Fargate, Kubernetes 🐳, service mesh 🌐; a passion for observability (Prometheus 📈, Grafana 📊, OpenTelemetry 🔍) and practices like chaos engineering 🔥.

• 🔒 Security & Compliance:

  Awareness of standards like PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, and principles of secure API design 🛡️.

• 🎯 Leadership & Domain:

  A passion for scalable architecture design, fostering cross-team alignment 🤝, and mentoring 🧑‍🏫; experience in commerce, payments, or other high-scale transaction systems 💼.