Overview

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Location: Remote (UK/EU preferred) | Contract type: Permanent

Position Title: Head of Platform Engineering
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer

About BibliU
Sunday Times Tech 100 | Top 10 UK EdTech Company
BibliU is an award-winning education company that provides Day 1 access to affordable course materials, making learning more equitable and effective, in addition to providing campus store management. We partner with over 3,000 educational publishers to offer a wide range of content. Our platform provides rich engagement data to academics and helps students find information faster. Founded in late-2015, we are a rapidly growing company expanding our team to meet market potential.

We are a diverse and inclusive team passionate about education and technology. Our culture is fast-paced, innovative, and dynamic.

The Challenge

We've grown 150% year-over-year for three years running. Our recent acquisition has accelerated growth. We plan for 10x growth over the next five years and will expand into additional products and services. We need someone who can architect systems that scale to support tens of millions of students across continents and reduce operational overhead.

The Opportunity

You'll have direct influence over technical architecture decisions that impact global education. Your infrastructure choices will determine instant access for students in different locations. Your cost optimization work translates to making education more affordable. Your security implementations protect the academic futures of millions.

Your Impact Areas

• Infrastructure Evolution: Transform our AWS estate into a coherent, multi-region platform capable of 8-10x growth over five years, supporting new product lines and services.
• Cost Intelligence: Build cost awareness and strategic investment into our engineering culture, not just cost cutting.
• Security Leadership: Own security posture across the stack, integrating security into data architecture and deployment pipelines.
• Data Platform Modernisation: Modernise data infrastructure to serve two new constituencies: retail systems for campus bookstores and analytics for internal growth; support real-time inventory and customer journey analytics.
• Engineering Enablement: Build platforms and tooling that increase productivity and enable safe, faster deployments.

Current Technical Landscape

• Languages: Full stack TypeScript
• Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, Redis
• Cloud: AWS
• Compute: Lambda, ECS, Kubernetes
• Infrastructure: Amazon CDK
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Essential Experience

• Platform Leadership: 8+ years in platform/infrastructure roles with evidence of leading technical strategy and teams
• AWS Mastery: Deep expertise across AWS services with informed opinions on when to use RDS vs DynamoDB, Kubernetes vs ECS, etc.
• Multi-Region Architecture: Proven experience designing systems across regions with varying compliance, latency, and availability requirements
• Cost Optimisation: Track record of meaningful infrastructure cost reduction while improving performance and reliability
• Security Leadership: Experience implementing comprehensive security strategies
• Data Infrastructure: Expertise in modern data architectures, real-time streaming, and analytics platforms
• Technical Leadership & Team Building: Able to lead platform teams while remaining hands-on; comfortable as senior engineer on a small team while planning for scale
• Operational Excellence: Designing for observability, maintainability, and incident response
• Developer Experience: Treat internal engineering teams as customers
• Educational Mission Alignment: Understanding that infrastructure impacts student success

Nice-to-Have / Exceptional Candidates

• Prior scale-up experience in a rapidly growing organization
• Experience scaling platforms through hypergrowth
• Cross-functional influence with product, finance, and executives
• Industry recognition or open-source contributions in platform/infrastructure
• EdTech, publishing, or mission-driven technology experience

Benefits

• 35 holiday days per year
• Your birthday off
• 12 company wellness Fridays off per year
• Flexible working hours – remote team across US and EU
• Work-from-home allowance
• Cycle-to-work scheme (UK)
• Equity participation

Additional

Please note: We do not work with external recruiters/recruitment agencies. This position will be filled directly by BibliU.