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We are Emma – The Sleep Company. Founded in 2015, we’ve become the world’s largest D2C sleep brand, available in over 35 countries with more than 25 stores across Europe. Recommended by leading consumer associations in EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, we develop the best sleep comfort products that empower our customers to awaken their best every day.
At Emma, we are a community of smart, driven people, united by a strong culture of collaboration, teamwork, and knowledge sharing. We think big, take ownership, and are empowered to drive meaningful impact. Through hands-on experience, mentorship, and continuous learning, we drive our own growth and learning. With Emmies from over 60 nationalities and offices across multiple regions, our diverse perspectives enrich our workplace culture. Ready to shape the future of sleep with us? Let’s make it happen!
We are seeking a talented and experienced Head of Platform / Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Team. The Platform Team is responsible for building and maintaining the core platform that enables our product teams to develop, deploy, and operate secure, scalable, and high-quality services. This team also drives improvements in developer tooling and experience, ensuring that our engineers can work efficiently and effectively. As a Manager for the Platform Team, your primary mission will be to enhance engineering productivity, enable fast, reliable, and secure software delivery, and ensure that infrastructure, tooling, and processes scale with the company’s needs.
What you'll do:
- Lead a high-impact team of 6 individuals that builds and maintains the engineering platform, providing the foundation for 15+ product development teams.
- Drive developer productivity improvements by optimizing workflows, automation, and developer experience across build, test, and deployment processes.
- Ensure platform reliability, security, and scalability, enabling product teams to ship with confidence and minimal operational friction.
- Advocate for best practices in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, site reliability engineering (SRE), and DevOps to enhance operational excellence.
- Foster collaboration among the product teams, understanding their challenges and providing solutions that empower them to move faster.
- Own the team’s roadmap and technical strategy, balancing short-term execution with long-term vision to build a sustainable platform.
- Mentor and grow your team, supporting their career development, and fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and psychological safety.
- Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions, ensuring platform solutions are robust, scalable, and secure.
- Lead incident response processes and promote a blameless postmortem culture, turning issues into learning opportunities.
Who we're looking for:
- Strong leadership skills, with a track record of building and growing high-performing teams while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- A proactive problem solver, able to work across teams and influence technical and strategic decisions.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical challenges into business impact.
- Expertise in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-related domains, with a strong background in at least one cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or similar).
- Proficiency in modern software development practices, including continuous delivery, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code,security, testing, observability, and containerization.
- A passion for developer experience and productivity, with an understanding of how tooling and automation improve efficiency.
What we offer:
- A combination of personal and company growth to accelerate your career and help you reach your goals.
- A career development path tailored to your goals, with access to mentorship, training, and resources that will accelerate your professional growth.
- The chance to work on exciting and challenging projects as part of a dedicated, international team.
- A culture of collaboration and innovation, where you’ll have the freedom to implement new ideas, shape processes, and help build the DNA of a maturing company.
- To work and learn from experts in diverse fields and get to know your team members at exciting company events.
Become an Emmie
Emma is transforming the world of sleep - and we want the highest-performing people to help us pull it off. We want you. But only if you're willing to go all in. Only if you're willing to question, disrupt, innovate, and create from the ground up.
We proudly celebrate diversity. We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting inclusion in our workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.
Our aim is to get back to you in a couple of days, however, we are currently receiving a large number of applications and this might lead to a delay in the process. We will get back to you as soon as possible!
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