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About the role
Responsibilities
Lead critical, cross-functional engineering initiatives from design to development and deployment, ensuring quality and scalability
Participate in technical decision-making and knowledge sharing across multiple teams
Collaborate with Product, UX, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless and data-driven experiences
Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence
Guide by example - service ownership, observability, and operational best practices across the engineering organization
Promote a culture of high standards, clean code, testing, and continuous improvement
Requirements
8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 2+ years as a senior, staff or principal-level role
Proven experience designing and building distributed systems at scale in cloud-native environments (GCP or AWS)
Deep expertise in backend technologies, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST/gRPC APIs
Strong hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) and full-stack engineering practices
Fluency in system design and architecture - capable of balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, and developer experience
Track record of shaping technical direction and elevating team capabilities
Passion for building high-impact, customer-facing products that are data-rich and intuitive
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority
Bonus Points
Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers in production environments
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
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