Head of Platform Engineering

Join Impress – Europe’s Leading Health-Tech Innovator!

We believe everyone deserves a smile they’ll love . As the largest Ortho clinic chain in Europe, we combine cutting-edge tech with expert care, revolutionizing invisible orthodontics since 2019.

With 150+ clinics across 10 countries and rapid growth, we’re improving lives worldwide.

We are looking for a Head of Platform Engineering to join our Onsite Team in Barcelona.

Why we’re cool:

• Work with an international and multicultural team

• Competitive salary

• Teeth aligner and whitening benefits

• Collaborative work environment and positive culture

• Opportunities to grow within a fast-paced, innovative company and real start-up experience with big challenges

• Fresh fruits and healthy snacks at the office

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the strategy and execution for platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and core backend systems.

• Own infrastructure scalability, reliability, observability, and operational performance.

• Drive improvements in CI/CD, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and incident

• management.

• Lead the evolution of shared platform services and system-level backend components built in Java, Node.js.

• Partner with product and engineering leaders to standardize architecture and engineering practices across teams.

• Improve developer productivity and platform capabilities for engineering teams.

• Drive infrastructure cost optimization and cloud governance initiatives.

• Improve security, resiliency, and disaster recovery processes.

• Build and mentor high-performing platform and infrastructure engineering teams.

• Collaborate closely with leadership to support long-term technical strategy and organizational scaling.

Requirements:

• Strong experience leading platform engineering and infrastructure.

• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

• Strong experience with backend systems and modern software architecture.

• Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Experience improving reliability, scalability, and engineering efficiency in high-growth environments.

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

• Comfortable operating in fast-paced international product organizations.

At Impress we cultivate a culture of inclusion and diversity. We celebrate our employees' individual strengths, views, and experiences and we encourage all candidates to apply, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other factor.