Staff Platform Engineer

Nintex, Johannesburg, South Africa

The role

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you own the technical strategy for a key product area or platform, ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business objectives.

For platform-focused roles, you contribute to the internal developer platform features – help defining roadmaps informed by adoption metrics, feedback loops and platform SLAs – all in service of your team’s developer experience.

You exhibit advanced wide-ranging experience, applying in-depth professional knowledge and commercial acumen to resolve complex technical challenges and define scalable procedures.

You lead technical direction across a feature team or product domain, drive architectural decisions, and influence multiple teams to ensure consistency -balancing hands-on technical contribution with strategic leadership.

Your contribution will be

You own technical strategy for the infrastructure of a key product area or platform, ensuring long-term scalability, maintainability, and alignment with business objectives
You lead technical direction for a feature team or product domain infrastructure, making critical architectural decisions
You understand and work on complex issues where analysis requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors
You determine methods and procedures on new assignments, exercising judgment in selecting and adapting complex techniques
You direct the application of existing principles and guide development of new policies and ideas
You anticipate and mitigate technical risks for large projects, planning proactively to avoid issues
You drive architectural decisions and technical strategy across multiple teams and systems
You influence multiple teams, ensuring consistency in technical approaches, frameworks, and architectural decisions
You network with key contacts outside your area of expertise, frequently advising others on complex matters
You understand the interrelationships of different disciplines and ensure cohesive technical solutions
You develop deep domain expertise while beginning to influence engineering strategy at the organizational level
You advocate for long-term technical solutions that support business growth and scalability
You collaborate cross-functionally to ensure scalability and efficiency across the organization
You work closely with product managers, design leads, and other stakeholders to drive alignment on engineering priorities
You adapt your style and use persuasion in delivering messages that relate to the wider business
You may be accountable through team for delivery of tactical business targets
You translate business requirements into technical strategy and execution plans
You drive cross-team collaboration and execution on strategic initiatives
You define and enforce engineering standards, ensuring technical excellence across teams
You mentor engineers at all levels and foster best practices throughout the organization, providing guidance on technical challenges and career development
You establish coding standards, architectural patterns, and development practices
You lead technical reviews and ensure quality across team deliverables
You create and maintain technical documentation and knowledge sharing initiatives
You define engineering roadmaps, aligning technical execution with business objectives and managing delivery expectations
You lead teams in defining technical direction and ensuring successful implementation
You develop and manage operational initiatives to deliver tactical results
You translate functional plans into operational processes and guide execution
Your work is reviewed upon completion and is consistent with departmental objectives
You maintain significant hands-on technical contributions as a senior individual contributor
You continue to write code, design systems, review architectures, and solve complex technical problems
You lead by example, demonstrating technical excellence in your own work
You participate in on-call rotations and incident response as a senior technical leader
You implement critical features and infrastructure components for your platform or product area
You contribute to knowledge sharing through documentation, tech talks, and training sessions
You guide best practices across teams, fostering a culture of engineering excellence
You help engineers develop their skills in Platform, infrastructure, and system design
You serve as a role model for technical excellence and professional growth
Attend and actively participate in team meetings and ceremonies applicable to current focus
Participate in the interview process for new team members
Help design and implement golden paths, service templates and self-service capabilities that accelerate developer productivity across teams
Drive improvement that reduces cognitive load for engineers

Staff Platform Engineer

The role

Staff Platform Engineer

The role

What you need

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Working in engineering

Your contribution will be

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