Head of Platform Engineering

Stuart is a sustainable 🌱 last-mile logistics company that connects retailers and e-merchants to a fleet of geolocalised couriers across several countries in Europe. 

Our Mission 🚀

We are an impact-driven company that aims to build the future of logistics for a more sustainable world: shared, efficient and reliable. We are committed to creating a new standard for urban deliveries that meet today’s environmental and social challenges while offering a premium delivery experience blending speed, flexibility and convenience.

Our motto: “Make every delivery a moment all of us can truly celebrate!” More than 3000+ leading brands already partner with us across Restaurants, Grocery, Retail & Luxury, and eCommerce to deliver all types of goods at the tap of a button. Stuart is a highly diverse and inclusive company of 350+ employees with 90+ nationalities working across France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Poland 🇵🇱, Spain 🇪🇸 and the U.K. 🇬🇧

It’s the right moment and the right place for us to make an impact on millions of people, as home delivery services hit a record high. And guess what? You can help us fulfil our vision 🙌

The Role ✨

The Head of Platform Engineering (HoPE) reports directly to the CTO and will directly manage other managers in the platform engineering department. This department is composed of several independent teams working together to build a modern and self-serviced cloud platform that runs all of Stuart’s services. Each team is led by a technical manager and it's the responsibility of the HoPE to ensure alignment among them, drive roadmap direction, elevate engineering quality, deliver continuous improvements and provide a healthy working environment for all team members.

• Define the Platform Engineering (PE) vision and strategy 
• Work with your teams and stakeholders to create the PE roadmap and commit to its delivery
• Add value to our developers’ lives by growing the Platform’s features
• Engage with your peers in other engineering units under the CTO to promote adoption of the new features in the common platform
• Provide the tools that increase Stuart’s reliability, availability and scalability
• Build on the existing FinOps strategy to continue to deliver cloud efficiencies
• Manage remote teams in European and near-shore locations
• Create a healthy and cooperative environment within your teams
• Execute performance reviews and create growth opportunities for your people
• Attend the Barcelona office (prime central location) 2/3 days a week
• Be part of the Engineering Leadership Team driving our engineering function

• A strong technical background in cloud computing (we use AWS) & SRE
• Experience leading Platform Engineering, “DevOps” or SRE teams
• Good knowledge and experience with software development
• Experience with directly managing technical Engineering Managers 
• Capacity to run a department with several teams, composed of both hybrid and remote team members
• A product mindset to build an internal developer platform
• Ideally, some solid knowledge of Data Platform Engineering
• Comfortable presenting to ExCo and interacting with other senior leaders
• Excellent verbal and written skills in the English language

• Work in an international, dynamic and passionate environment with a company culture focused on learning and development 🎉
• Hybrid working model and flexible hours ✨

• Current benefits include: 
• Ticket Restaurant by Edenred (€11 daily) 🥗
• Stuart Academy, offering a wide range of upskilling and development opportunities 🎓
• Wellness Allowance (€40 monthly) to use in any gym or sport class 🧘
• Private healthcare provided by Alan 🧑‍⚕️
• Free monthly Bicing card 🚲
• Parents-friendly environment - Monthly Childcare voucher Social activities and events (family day, regular community lunch, ceramic class, yoga, gardening class...) 🎈
• Work-from-Abroad policy (enjoy 30 days per year working from anywhere!) 🏞

At Stuart, we believe that employees today want to evolve in collaborative, high-growth environments where they can demonstrate their abilities and thrive both professionally and personally. We are convinced that employees need to find alignment between their inner values and their company’s culture and mission to unlock their full potential. We work to create a culture of empowerment, continuous learning and growth where everyone can bring expertise, own projects and easily measure their impact 🙌

Stuart is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to promoting diversity. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status 💙

Please note: Our Talent Acquisition Team is international coming from across the world 🌍 We kindly ask you to please submit your CV and application in English so that it can be reviewed correctly (unless the job posting is in a language other than English). Thank you 🤗

Want to learn more about us? Visit https://stuart.com/about-us/