Experience: 10+ years
- Own the most critical and complex backend systems, directly writing and shipping production code across core services
- Lead the design and implementation of high-scale distributed systems that power real-time, high-throughput workloads
- Set technical direction for foundational backend architecture while remaining deeply involved in execution
- Make principled architectural decisions that balance iteration speed with long-term scalability, resilience, and maintainability
- Drive multi-service initiatives that cut across storage, compute, APIs, and blockchain infrastructure
- Anticipate scaling constraints and correctness risks before they surface, proactively designing durable solutions
- Establish patterns and standards for observability, reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, RFCs, and direct mentorship, influencing through technical depth and clarity of thinking
- Act as a technical anchor during high-pressure incidents, ensuring systems remain stable under load
- Improve internal developer velocity by evolving tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and service abstractions
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with multiple cycles of building, scaling, and operating distributed systems in production
- Proven track record of owning foundational backend architecture in high-growth or high-scale environments
- Deep expertise in Rust, Go, or TypeScript, with strong systems-level intuition
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design: consensus, failure modes, replication, consistency models, and performance tradeoffs
- Extensive experience with database design and data modelling, including complex tradeoffs around consistency, latency, and durability
- Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that span multiple services and teams
- Recognised as a go-to technical authority by senior engineers and peers
- High-agency and execution-focused. You shape direction by building
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