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API • SaaS • Enterprise

Tyk is a comprehensive API management platform that provides a powerful and customizable API gateway for secure and simple API management (APIM). It supports both synchronous and asynchronous APIs, including REST, GraphQL, and real-time event streams, making it a central hub for managing and monetizing APIs. Tyk is known for its robust API security, governance, and analytics, allowing businesses to efficiently manage API design, operations, and optimization. It caters to platform teams and developers with a focus on automation, scalability, and innovation. Tyk offers various deployment options, including Tyk Cloud, Tyk Self-Managed, and Tyk Hybrid, ensuring flexibility across different environments. Recognized as a leader in API management, Tyk harnesses open-source for increased innovation and open API standards for enhanced API design and governance.

51 - 200 employees

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Define and maintain solution design principles and tooling standards for non-functional engineering (testing, CI/CD, observability, quality). • Work closely with the Head of Engineering Operations to refine the domain strategy and propose new technical approaches. • Design, communicate, and align teams around the target-state architecture for non-functional capabilities. • Lead architectural decisions, create ADRs, and ensure alignment with wider platform strategy. • Mentor engineers across the organisation on solution design, testing, CI/CD, and quality best practices. • Advocate for improvements in engineering processes (horizon planning, sprint planning, quality gates). • Lead the design and delivery of new non-functional capabilities while developing team autonomy. • Manage architectural dependencies and ensure domain designs don’t negatively impact other areas. • Build scalable testing infrastructure, observability frameworks, CI/CD optimisations, and automation tools (primarily in Go). • Write production-ready Go code — hands-on development, not just planning. • Analyse data to identify high-impact improvements; establish baselines and quantify ROI. • Debug systemic issues (e.g., flaky CI pipelines, performance bottlenecks, test infra failures). • Lead major initiatives end-to-end using Kanban — from problem definition to rollout and impact measurement. • Translate technical improvements into business cases with measurable value. • Partner with engineering teams to understand pain points, run pilots, gather feedback, and drive adoption. • Line-manage engineers within the Non-Functionals team; run 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in software engineering with significant work on non-functional capabilities (observability, testing, CI/CD, reliability, developer productivity). • Proven leadership experience driving technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams. • Deep knowledge of architectural frameworks and principles (e.g., TOGAF) • Experience designing long-term target-state architectures and architectural blueprints. • Demonstrated success delivering measurable productivity, reliability, or efficiency improvements with quantified ROI. • Experience line-managing, mentoring, and coaching engineers. • Hands-on experience with both client- and server-side systems. • Strong understanding of cloud-native environments: Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, testing at scale. • Experience in performance optimisation, test infrastructure, and quality automation. • Experience with IaC, automation frameworks, and modern software quality tooling. • Desired Skills • Advanced Go development skills (primary language for frameworks and tooling). • Proficiency with Kubernetes (resource optimisation, deployments, pod management). • Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform or similar). • Familiarity with developer tooling: linters, static analysis, pre-commit hooks. • Strong API design and integration skills for automation tools. • Strong understanding of Kanban with knowledge of SCRUM principles. • Deep knowledge of software quality practices: static analysis, dependency management, security scanning.

🏖️ Benefits

• Everyone has unlimited paid holidays. • We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all. • Employee share scheme • Generous maternity and paternity leave • Volunteering Days • Company retreats • Employee Wellbeing platform