Platform Owner

Maknet is an exciting new digital venture by the iconic Makro. Our proud purpose is to build a technology platform that will help make business possible for restaurant owners, hotels, and independent retailers, and open the door for sellers. Maknet brings together the best talent across multi-nationals to transform the B2B marketplace ecosystem. We welcome bold, energetic, and thoughtful people who share our belief in collaboration, diversity, excellence, and putting customers at the heart of our work
Take your career to new heights in the future of B2B e-commerce. Join our team and help us build Southeast Asia’s next unicorn.

Your Challenge

A Platform Owner creates platform roadmap and defines the strategic vision for their team to support short and long term product vision. They have a deep understanding of the current enterprise platform, leading-edge application and technology to serve the application development needs. A Platform Owner manages dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building and managing strategic partnership across the different teams. They work closely with engineering and quality assurance to ensure the right problem is solved from developer’s point of view.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure digital platform is able to support product vision and align within team strategy and requirements for each sprint
• Create overall platform roadmap and shapes demand for enterprise platform
• Make sure that the platform team understand and align day-to-day work to the business strategy, roadmap, and platform
• Owns and oversight of the tooling, the core platform team, and any escalations
• Make contribution to business value by identifying additional platform features that support better business outcomes
• Work closely with cross-functional team members to build developer tools to increase productivity of software and data engineering teams
• Lays down the vision of security and compliance; ensures continuous compliance of the cloud platform
• Drives Cloud Budget planning and Cost Optimization exercises
• Collaborates to design advanced architectural patterns (e.g. event-based) on cloud

• 5 years+ experience managing platform squads
• Strong knowledge of Cloud (preferably AWS), DevSecOps practices including CI/CD (preferably Gitlab)
• Understands Infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and has working experience with at least 1 IaC Tool (preferably Terraform)
• Strong foundational understanding of building “robust” and “secure” systems (e.g. Data Platform, Microservices Architecture, Secure by Design Concepts)
• Basic knowledge of coding in at least 1 programming language (e.g. Python)
• Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, product design, and business
• Proven knowledge and understanding of standard practices, technology and supporting industry principles
• Experience with B2B digital products
• Experienced in facilitating agile ceremonies, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up, etc.)
• Deep experience leading with teams in an agile setting
• Strong leader, collaborator, team player, and individual contributor
• Excellent detailed written and verbal communication skills, possibly including some user interface documentation skills.

• Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress

• Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change

• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust

• Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same

• Empowers others to fail, learn, and grow

• Experimental mindset to drive innovation

Health Insurance – At Maknet, we care about your health! Group insurance from a top insurance company is included in your benefits—OPD, IPD, Emergency OPD

Provident Fund – Maknet cares about your long-term plan! We offer 3% provident fund.

Year-end bonus – We include variable and performance bonus for our employees.

Gym Facilities – Our Head office has a fitness center, yoga room, and recreational space. Enjoy Bangkok scenery and work your body!

Attractive Vacations days – Enjoy our attractive annual leave. Let’s say the minimum is 18 days!

No overtime – We work 5 days a week with. We set our own goals and deadlines.

Free car parking space – No more stress or extra cost if you drive to work. We offer free parking space for our employees.

Best Culture

• Clear focus.
• Diverse Workplace (Our members are from around the world!)
• Thai and Non-Thai are both welcome!
• Non-hierarchical and agile environment
• Growth opportunity and career path