Engineering Manager - Platform

Engineering Manager - Platform

bunch is building the backbone of private markets, combining exceptional expertise, operational excellence, and frictionless technology. The platform enables funds and private investors to set up and manage their investment entities seamlessly and securely.

To expand our core team, we are hiring an Engineering Manager - Platform who wants to play a pivotal role in growing our product development team and transforming the private markets industry.

Your primary responsibilities will be ensuring our engineering output delivers tangible value, as well as technical and architectural direction and team resources. You will be involved in shaping the future of the tech team as we grow to the next stage. We are focusing on Product Excellence and building sustainable tech processes.

• You will be at the core of building the technology that powers bunch. We aim to build something meaningful with a real-world impact
• You will lead a platform team and have full accountability for delivering reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure and tooling that enable product squads to solve real customer problems.

• Lead, grow, and support the platform team through coaching, clear expectations, and a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Own the platform strategy and roadmap, prioritising initiatives, managing team capacity, and ensuring strong execution and impact.
• Provide technical direction for our AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform, guiding architectural decisions that balance speed, reliability, security, and cost.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure and IaC practices, ensuring the team delivers secure, resilient, well-managed AWS environments.
• Drive improvements to CI/CD and developer experience by setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and removing friction for product teams.
• Champion observability and reliability, ensuring robust logging, metrics, tracing, and effective incident response practices.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, security, and operations experts in the company to align standards, resolve cross-team issues, and support smooth service integration.
• Maintain platform quality by steering tech-debt reduction, documentation, and alignment with security and compliance expectations.

About bunch

bunch is an investment tech startup founded in Berlin in 2021. With a proven track record, bunch has garnered trust from leading fund managers and institutional LPs, who have collectively committed over €5 billion through the platform.

The private markets are experiencing unprecedented growth, with alternative assets expected to reach nearly $40 trillion by the end of the decade, yet still reliant on outdated tools and methods.

We recently closed our $15.5 million Series A to accelerate bunch’s mission to bring a trillion-dollar industry into the 21st century, driving a much-needed digital transformation.

• Benefit from working with a diverse mix of talents, unrivalled energy, and team spirit within a culture of drive and ownership.
• Flexible hours and a remote work for residents in Spain or Portugal, with quarterly trips to Berlin
• 28 days of vacation per year plus public holidays.
• A competitive compensation package.
• A great tech and work setup with everything you need.

To excel as a member of the Product Development team, you should combine a passion for technology with an entrepreneurial mindset and strong problem-solving skills.

• You are a team player with excellent communication skills and a strong work ethic.
• 3+ years' experience leading teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in software engineering with a preference for a Platform/DevOps/Infrastructure engineering background
• Strong technical foundation in Cloud technologies (we work with AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
• Experience guiding teams that build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Solid understanding of observability, reliability, and operating distributed systems at scale.

Nice to have:

• SRE background, familiarity with SOC 2/ISO 27001, and experience with TypeScript, Python, or Go.
• Experience with private markets, fintech, highly regulated industries, or document processing is a plus

Our tech stack

We strive to keep our technology stack as simple and efficient as possible.

• Frontend & Backend: TypeScript on both the frontend (Svelte) and the backend (Node.js with Nest.js)
• Database: MySQL
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes (K8S) on top of AWS
• Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub
• Third-Party Applications:
  • FusionAuth for authentication
  • Retool for low-code internal frontend solutions
  • Twilio and SendGrid for sending SMS and emails
  • Tally for creating custom forms