Lead Engineer – Platform & Architecture

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $136k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Destify

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Logistics • Travel

Destify is a company specializing in planning and organizing destination weddings. They provide services that include finding the perfect wedding venue, managing travel logistics, and coordinating on-site wedding details to create a seamless experience for couples and their guests. Destify operates by collaborating with resorts and hotels at various destinations such as Mexico, Jamaica, and the Caribbean, offering customizable wedding packages and a personalized website for each wedding. Their US-based experts provide comprehensive support without service fees, as resorts compensate them for bookings, ensuring a stress-free process from planning to the wedding day.

📋 Description

• Own platform architecture, technical patterns, approaches, and guardrails • Build production-ready proofs of concept • Ensure technical documentation and runbooks exist, have repository owners, and remain maintained • Anticipate cross-system change impacts and guide trade-off decisions • Define technical standards and developer operational velocity practices • Manage tooling, frameworks, automation, and AI guidance for safe, fast delivery • Make build-versus-buy recommendations for platform tooling • Own instrumentation and observability using Honeycomb and underlying platform layers • Lead security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and scalability requirements • Own cutover and deployment discipline for complex migrations, beginning with CRM decommissioning • Own code review standards and provide technical mentorship to the Nepal team • Ensure backend systems have at least two engineers able to maintain and extend them • Provide technical feasibility, cost, and alternative assessments for product initiatives before commitment

🎯 Requirements

• A track record of outcomes owned end to end • Reliability and follow-through with stated timelines and deadlines • Curiosity when receiving feedback and resilience in chaotic situations • Architectural responsibility across six or more services at once • Depth in containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes; Amazon EKS preferred • AWS experience, including Lambda and RDS • Infrastructure-as-code experience, preferably CDK or SAM • Experience with CDN, WAF, rate limiting, TLS, DNS, and cache strategy • Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and C# skills • SQL and defensible database design skills • Observability expertise, including Honeycomb and PostHog • Experience with mixed estates including LAMP, PHP, WordPress, XML/SOAP integrations, CRM, and identity systems • Experience using Claude Code as an agentic coding partner • Experience coaching engineers and managing service partners across time zones • Nice to have: Helm, Argo CD, and HubSpot development platform experience