• Contribute to both the technical and product roadmap, providing input and effort estimates during initiative discovery and execution. • Collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate business needs into elegant, effective technical solutions. • Anticipate and resolve challenges before they become blockers — identify potential failure points, plan solutions, and weigh trade-offs thoughtfully. • Mentor and support teammates, sharing knowledge through pair programming, code reviews, and technical discussions.

• Design and Develop Strategic, Scalable Systems: Lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance, API-based backend services, making strategic, forward-looking architectural decisions that meet service level objectives (SLOs) and scale to support long-term, growing business needs. • Define Technical Strategy: Analyze current state, anticipate future technical challenges, and help define the technical roadmap for your domain, ensuring architectural choices are scalable, sustainable, and align with the broader company vision. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to define technical requirements and design scalable, maintainable system architectures that align with business goals and product roadmaps. • Implement DevSecOps Practices: Champion and implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and security practices throughout the development lifecycle to ensure the reliability, observability and security of production systems. • Drive Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Ensure comprehensive documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to enable internal teams and external customers to easily build and integrate with the APIs in a self-service manner.

• Lead the cars.com domain at Cars Commerce • Build novel Full Stack solutions for car buyers and sellers • Advocate best practices in software design and engineering quality • Mentor and support engineers across all levels • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals • Drive technical excellence and evaluate emerging technologies

• Analyzes and defines software and system requirements to establish specifications and standards. • Develops, debugs, tests, and troubleshoots code throughout the application lifecycle while improving observability and reliability via monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-incident hardening. • Designs, builds, deploys, and operates production systems and services supporting product features, integrations, and platform capabilities. • Develops tools for infrastructure and technology platforms including operating systems, networks, databases, and cloud solutions to optimize operational efficiency. • Builds and maintains CDC/streaming data movement workflows (e.g., Debezium, Kafka) with focus on replay, idempotency, backfills, and schema evolution. • Delivers reliable integrations with cloud storage and data warehouses such as Snowflake and Iceberg, leveraging dbt for modeled data layers. • Writes clean, maintainable code shipped through robust Git/PR/CI/CD workflows with appropriate testing, documentation, and peer code reviews to meet or exceed standards. • Uses Terraform, containers, and Kubernetes (or equivalents) to safely deploy and operate services and infrastructure. • Partners cross-functionally to define requirements, shape technical approaches, and deliver iterative value. • Mentors engineers and contributes to engineering standards, design reviews, and platform best practices.