- Align engineering roadmap with business outcomes. Translate company goals and customer needs into a technical roadmap. Communicate trade-offs and decisions in plain language

- Design and evolve core platforms for APIs, data, and AI that are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-aware ( thousands of concurrent assistant sessions, bursty traffic).

- Embed AI as a first-class concern : request orchestration, evaluation harnesses, guardrails and safety, prompt and data governance.

- Partner to deliver impact : Work with product managers and, when needed, customer-facing teams to drive impact.

- Mentor : raise the bar through reviews, design reviews, and hands-on pairing; be a model others emulate.

Required Skillset :

- Backend/platform engineer with over 8 years of experience building and operating production-grade services with clear ownership of outcomes.

- Strong in system design and distributed systems, with hands-on experience across cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containers & Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and CI/CD automation.

- Depth in one or more of Go, Java, Ruby, Python, or JavaScript, and ability to quickly learn new languages and frameworks.

- Proficient with Postgres/MySQL and NoSQL databases, and experienced in event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar for streaming and async

- Excellent communicator who writes clear documentation, explains trade-offs simply, mentors peers, and influences across teams without direct authority.

- Exposure to AI systems in production such as LLM gateways, prompt or model evaluation and guardrails.