1. Built and Scaled Production Systems :

- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a Tech Lead role.

- Proven experience scaling applications handling high transaction volumes, large user bases, or business-critical workloads.

2. Strong System Design & Architecture Skills :

- Expertise in designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems and microservices.

- Strong understanding of system design, performance optimization, fault tolerance, and reliability.

3. Hands-on Engineering Leader :

- Should actively contribute to coding, design reviews, debugging, and production issue resolution.

- Able to balance technical leadership with hands-on development.

4. Cloud & DevOps Experience :

- Strong experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.

- Experience with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, infrastructure automation, and production operations.

5. Database & Data Scaling Expertise :

- Deep understanding of SQL databases, performance tuning, indexing, replication, and high-availability architectures.

- Experience handling growing data volumes and system bottlenecks.

6. Mobile & API Platform Scaling :

- Experience supporting mobile applications and backend platforms with rapidly growing user traffic.

- Knowledge of API performance optimization, caching, rate limiting, and observability.

7. AI-Driven Engineering Productivity :

- Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, code quality, documentation, onboarding, troubleshooting, and knowledge management.

- Ability to build or drive an "Engineering Brain" by integrating internal documentation, architecture knowledge, coding standards, runbooks, and operational learnings into AI-powered systems.

8. Team Leadership & Execution :

- Experience leading engineering teams, mentoring developers, driving technical decisions, and delivering projects on schedule.