About the Role

As a hands-on Engineering Manager of our developer platform and infrastructure at Ledgy, you'll lead the team that makes everything else possible - the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, security posture, and platform capabilities that thousands of employees worldwide depend on to experience equity ownership. You'll lead a team of ~5 engineers and own the foundation for Ledgy's next chapter: fast and reliable pipelines, solid infrastructure, and a developer experience that keeps scaling as the majority of our engineering work becomes AI-assisted.

This is a good fit if you see DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering as one of the highest-leverage investments a company can make. To thrive you will need depth in developer experience and infrastructure, plus genuine curiosity about how agents are changing the way software is built. You'll also partner closely with our CISO to shape Ledgy's security strategy, as enterprise customers in a regulated market demand rigorous security practices. You'll report directly to the Head of Engineering and play a key role in scaling our platform and our engineering culture.

You'll Thrive in This Role If You

• Bring deep experience in CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure - and clear opinions about how to make pipelines fast, reliable, and pleasant to work with
• Have a strong vision for what great developer experience looks like, and the craft to deliver it
• Are at home in application code as well as infrastructure - our stack is TypeScript end to end, and platform initiatives such as our data layer live inside the product codebase
• Are excited about building systems that scale: observability, deployment automation, developer experience, and infrastructure-as-code
• Have a security-minded approach to platform engineering - you understand what it means to run production systems holding sensitive financial data, and you want to help evolve that model as more of the software lifecycle becomes automated
• Love developing people, watching engineers grow and tackle increasingly sophisticated challenges
• Want to remain hands-on - you're comfortable building with Terraform, debugging pipelines, and shipping improvements yourself
• Are curious about AI-assisted development and want to grow in that space - we're looking for strong platform engineers who want to build for this new reality, not for AI specialists
• Have 3+ years experience in Engineering Management and 6+ years as a Software Engineer, with meaningful time spent in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps roles

What You'll Own

• Team Leadership: Leading a team of platform engineers, setting technical direction, and creating an environment where people do the best work of their careers.
• Platform Readiness for Automation: Extending the platform so automated and AI-assisted workflows are safe by default - sandbox and dry-run environments, clear identity and access models, audit trails that show who or what changed production, and interfaces that let modern tooling work with our systems. This is a space to grow into, not a prerequisite.
• CI/CD & Developer Experience: Our build and deployment pipelines - making them fast, reliable, and low-friction. The bar: any contributor can open a PR, get it reviewed, and ship it with confidence, and that path keeps holding as automated and AI-assisted contributions grow in volume.
• Infrastructure & Observability: Our GCP infrastructure, Terraform configuration, monitoring, and alerting. You'll set SLOs and make sure we can see and explain what's happening in production.
• Security Partnership: Working alongside our CISO to define and execute Ledgy's security strategy. This means helping prioritise what matters most for a regulated fintech serving enterprise clients: supply chain security, access controls, secrets management, and the newer questions raised by automated tooling in production. You'll be the engineering leader who turns security strategy into implemented reality.
• In-App Platform Initiatives: At the moment, the team’s ownership doesn't stop at the infrastructure boundary. Some of our highest-leverage work lives inside the product codebase - our TypeScript data layer, shared abstractions, and cross-cutting data migrations that every product team builds on.

Our Tech Stack

A modern, cohesive stack that lets us move fast while maintaining quality:

• Language: TypeScript
• Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC
• Backend: tRPC, Node.js, MongoDB, Temporal
• Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Github Actions

What Your Journey Could Look Like

First 30 Days

• Build meaningful relationships with your direct reports and understand their career aspirations
• Get hands-on with our CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment processes - identify the biggest friction points
• Learn how our engineers work day to day - including where current tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, automated PRs) helps and where it creates friction
• Join the engineering leadership team and understand how we translate product vision into technical reality
• Meet with our CISO and understand Ledgy's current security posture, compliance requirements, and where the biggest gaps are

First 3 Months

• Own and drive improvements to pipeline reliability and speed - set measurable SLOs for build times, deployment frequency, and failure rates
• Define and begin executing a developer-experience roadmap: faster feedback loops, safer deploys, and the guardrails that let automated contributions scale without adding risk
• Have regular 1:1s with your reports and support them in their growth
• Shape platform strategy alongside the Head of Engineering and CTO
• Partner with the CISO to define a security roadmap - access controls, code provenance, and data exposure, including risks introduced by newer tooling - and begin executing on the highest-priority items

6–12 Months

• Be recognised as the technical leader who defines how Ledgy's platform scales - for the engineers using it today and the automation we add over time
• Have delivered measurable improvements to developer experience, deployment velocity, and infrastructure reliability
• Lead meaningful career development conversations and conduct performance reviews
• Own engineering initiatives that influence how the entire organisation ships software - including cross-cutting work inside the application, such as our data layer, where success depends on alignment across product teams
• Be a trusted partner to product and engineering leadership on technical direction

The Interview Process

1. Getting to know you (30 min): Meet with someone from our people team to talk about your experience and to answer questions about the role
2. Live Coding (60 min): A problem-solving session in our application domain, using your preferred language and IDE
3. System Design (60 min): Walk us through an architecture you've significantly contributed to - we'll explore CI/CD, infrastructure, reliability, and scaling aspects based on your experience
4. Mock 1:1 (45 min): A mock coaching conversation with one of our engineers to see how you approach people management and development
5. Culture & Vision (30 min): Meet one of our founders to discuss Ledgy's mission and how you think about building platforms that scale
6. Offer 🎉

Being Part of Ledgy Means

• Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country
• We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget
• This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling
• For candidates based in London or Zurich we use a hybrid work model of 2 days in the office per week