Lead Platform Engineer

Build the backbone of JouwWeb. Keep our infrastructure simple, scalable and secure so hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs can grow.

Job description

At JouwWeb and Webador, we make entrepreneurship accessible to everyone. As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will design and operate a platform that scales smoothly and reliably. You will lead our platform and infrastructure area (currently a team of 1), work closely with our CTO, and set the technical direction that enables us to grow two, three, or even four times our current size without friction.

You have the autonomy to build solutions that work. You favor simplicity and maintainability, keep overhead low, and help teams ship fast and safely. You experiment, measure, and scale what works. Your work has a direct impact on our customers and our international ambitions, making it possible for our product teams to deliver quickly and safely to over 280,000 customers and many more in the future.

What will you be doing?

• Architecture and scale: Design a growth-ready platform that handles traffic and customer doubles with ease.
• Operations and reliability: Own and manage our Google Cloud environment, continuously improve uptime, backups, disaster recovery, observability, and CI/CD.
• Cost efficiency: Optimize cloud spend per customer through smart architectural and tooling choices.
• Security: Reduce risk with hardening, clear playbooks, and prepared response scenarios. Set up and test clear response processes.
• Leadership: Make strategic choices to take both our infrastructure and our team to the next level.
• Pragmatic choices: Use technology because it works for us. No complexity for complexity’s sake.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud and hosting: Google Cloud Platform, Docker Swarm, HAProxy, Terraform, Ansible, Kamal
• Application and data: PHP, MySQL Cloud SQL, Redis Memory Store
• CI/CD and monitoring: CircleCI, Datadog, Better Stack
• Mail and CDN: Dovecot, Postfix, Rspamd, Fastly

What we offer

• Learning and development budget of 5% of your annual salary.
• Excellent pension with no personal contribution.
• Hybrid setup: shared Friday Development Day at Strijp-S in Eindhoven; otherwise, choose where you work best.
• Professional, informal culture: flat structure, minimal meetings, lots of focus.
• Fun extras when company targets are met, such as surprises, outings, and additional bonuses.

Job requirements

Who you are

• Bachelor’s or Master’s level (HBO/WO+) and 5+ years in a comparable platform, infrastructure, or SRE role.
• Available for 32 - 40 hours per week.
• Proficient in English (spoken and written).
• Hands-on owner, strong in Linux, virtualization, and reliability.
• Pragmatic and simplicity first. You prefer maintainable over complex solutions.
• Willing to jump in during incidents and help formalize on-call processes.
• You align with our values and way of working: simple, lean, data-driven, experiment-minded, and fun.
• You are an experienced, hands-on specialist who enjoys solving complex problems.

About JouwWeb (and Webador)

With JouwWeb, small business owners can easily create a professional website or online store they can be proud of. Thanks to new AI features in our tool, starting a website has become easier than ever! Our company is based in Strijp-S, Eindhoven. We are ambitious and growing rapidly, supported by Webador, our international brand. Already, more than 275,000 small business owners worldwide use the premium version of our service and are very enthusiastic about it (JouwWeb and Webador). By reaching more customers, we increase the impact we make on entrepreneurship worldwide. Our dream goal is to reach 1,000,000 customers by 2030. Despite our growth, we remain a relatively small team of 45 colleagues where everyone makes as much impact as possible!

We like to keep things simple, both in our product and processes. We work data-driven and love to validate hypotheses through experiments. We keep meetings to a minimum; our team works with focus and calm on meaningful improvements.

Excited about a hybrid environment and ready to become indispensable as our Lead Platform Engineer? Available 32 to 40 hours per week and eager to make impact? Email our Lead Developer Koen at kivits@jouwweb.nl.