Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Zappi helps some of the world’s biggest brands test ideas before they spend money bringing them to life. That means new products, ads, names, packaging and flavours. Our customers make big decisions on our data, so it has to be accurate, fast and affordable.

We make around $100M in revenue. Our product engineering team is about 90 people, based in London and Cape Town.

AI has changed how we write code. Throughput at Zappi keeps going up, and the bottleneck is moving to everything around the code. That means environments, config, deploys and access, plus keeping more and more of it running safely and cheaply.

That’s the space Platform Engineering works in. The team runs our core infrastructure and AI workloads, and builds the developer platform our engineers use to set up, deploy, configure and monitor their apps. Infrastructure and app setup are defined as data, which is what makes the platform flexible. In the last month, teams and automations completed over 20,000 deployments, 5,600 of them to production, all without needing us. Anything we make easier gives time back to the rest of engineering.

Next, we want agents working on that same platform. Picture one that spots an error in production, spins up its own isolated environment with the right context, reproduces the issue and works out what’s wrong. It then either hands over a clear diagnosis or opens a pull request with the fix, and we can see and review every step. We can only do that if the platform is built for it.

Our Platform Engineering team runs that platform and builds what comes next. We’re looking for someone to lead it.