Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering

The Bidding Platform organization at RTB House processes over 20 million requests per second to participate in real-time auctions and display advertisements to customers from 90+ countries. The Platform Engineering team owns the platform and infrastructure that the bidding applications run on — including deployment, monitoring, databases, load balancing, and Kubernetes. The team ensures reliability and scalability under massive, low-latency load and provides self-service tooling for vertical business teams to build and ship autonomously.

• Minimum 2 years in a technical leadership role (Team Lead / Engineering Manager), including project team leadership.
• Strong hands-on background in distributed systems and systems engineering: deployment, monitoring, databases, load balancing within large-scale infrastructure.
• Comprehensive understanding of complex IT systems across hardware, software, and algorithms.
• Knowledge of concurrent programming and distributed systems.
• Critical performance analysis skills from theoretical estimation to production optimization.
• Strong programming background and ability to conduct deep code reviews.
• Experience building platform capabilities as products for other engineering teams, including defining usage contracts and driving cross-team rollouts.
• Comfortable owning technical areas end-to-end and communicating across teams.
• Self-directed and proactive.
• Fluency in English and Polish at C1 level.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~8–10 systems and backend engineers, fostering technical excellence and high code quality.
• Own the vision and roadmap for the platform layer of the Bidding Platform focusing on platform efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Define the team's evolving scope as the platform grows.
• Delegate ownership of platform areas such as monitoring, deployment, and security to senior engineers.
• Deliver team capabilities as self-service platforms with clear usage contracts.
• Base decisions on data by running experiments and gathering evidence.
• Participate in IT-wide capacity planning for platform scaling.
• Own the framework for dispatching on-call alarms and reduce noisy alarms continuously, without necessarily taking part in the duty rotation.

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