On any given day, you might :

- Shape Architecture : Drive the technical vision for core platform services.

- Have strong opinions on system design and North Star Architecture, and guide teams to align with it.

- Lead by Example : Be a hands-on technical leader, contributing directly to high-impact projects (Big Rocks) with high output and uncompromising quality.

- Mentor & Guide : Provide day-to-day technical guidance, unblock teams, and help engineers grow through thoughtful reviews and best-practice sharing.

- Plan & Deliver : Collaborate on scope, milestones, and execution plans that promote incremental delivery and meaningful impact.

- Partner Cross-Functionally : Work closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to turn business objectives into elegant, reliable technical solutions.

- Build for the Future : Develop and evolve core services that scale with the companys growth, anticipating needs and designing with flexibility in mind.

What you bring :

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years building and scaling platform systems.

- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (preferably GCP), and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.

- Strong background in containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) along with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

- Hands-on expertise across the stack : designing microservices in Python and Elixir (GraphQL, REST, gRPC), building React/TypeScript frontends, managing data with PostgreSQL and Cloud Storage, scaling with Redis and Pub/Sub, and implementing observability with Cloud Logging, Monitoring, and Sentry.

- Domain experience in platform services a plus : authentication, authorization, identity management, and multi-channel notifications.

- Proven ability to design and deliver high-traffic, high-availability systems that are scalable, resilient, and secure.

- Track record of anticipating technical pitfalls and making proactive design choices to avoid them.

- Experience building flexible, future-proof systems that adapt easily to new business needs.

- Hands-on technical leadership : youre the go-to person for unblocking, reviewing, and leading large-scale technical initiatives end-to-end.

- Collaborative product mindset, with success translating requirements into technical solutions alongside Product and Design partners.

- Passion for engineering excellence bringing in new tools, practices, and ideas that elevate the whole team.

- Strong mentorship and influence skills; you raise the technical bar across teams by sharing knowledge and modeling best practices.

- Availability for on-call rotation, ensuring mission-critical systems get timely, effective attention