• Provide guidance on system architecture decisions, making sure the technical direction aligns with business goals. • Conduct thorough code reviews, ensuring best practices are followed, identifying potential issues, and mentoring junior developers in improving their coding skills. • Provide technical guidance, share knowledge, and help junior and mid-level engineers grow in their roles by reviewing their work and offering constructive feedback. • Work closely with other teams to ensure seamless delivery of software projects and alignment across departments. • Be able to break down large, complex tasks into smaller, manageable components and distribute them among team members. • Play a key role in agile processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and prioritization of tasks. • Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, and clients, to clarify requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives. • Handle complex technical challenges, debugging, and resolving issues that may be beyond the scope of junior engineers. • Integrate AI tools throughout the development lifecycle with critical evaluation for security, performance, and maintainability • Build and maintain AI API integrations with proper error handling, caching, and observability • Automate development workflows using AI in CI/CD pipelines • Mentor team members on effective AI tool usage and establish team-level best practices • Apply compliance standards to all AI implementations • Participate in on-call rotation to support the “you build it you own it” mantra • Understanding and utilization of software development tools including version control, building processes, debuggers, and test frameworks for primary and secondary technologies.