• Conducting database assessments to identify schema inconsistencies, redundant structures, and performance issues • Designing, refactoring, and optimizing relational database schemas to support modernization • Executing hands-on database optimization, tuning, and legacy system stabilization • Supporting configuration management, patching, release management, and CI/CD integration • Collaborating with developers, architects, and security analysts to align database structures with modern frameworks • Troubleshooting and resolving database-related defects across development, testing, and operations • Supporting security authorization documentation, risk assessments, and vulnerability remediation • Validating database changes through unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing • Creating and maintaining technical documentation including schemas, data models, change logs, and sustainment procedures • Participating in Agile ceremonies and supporting traceable, well-documented release processes

• Architect distributed backend services and APIs, defining patterns for microservices, caching, queuing, resiliency, and error handling. • Design and maintain data pipelines following the medallion architecture, building and optimizing ETL/ELT workflows that ingest, transform, and serve data at scale. • Write high-quality, production-ready code and integrate with external APIs, cloud services, and internal microservices. • Implement secure authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and multi-tenant access controls across services. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code environments, leading code reviews and ensuring high engineering standards. • Implement tracing, structured logging, metrics, and alerting, optimizing services for latency, concurrency, and reliability. • Mentor engineers, contribute to internal libraries and backend frameworks, and drive consistency across the platform.

• Develop, and deploy software solutions at scale. • Guide best practices in coding, testing, and DevOps. • Lead design reviews and provide technical mentorship. • Drive innovation by researching new technologies and approaches. • Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams on strategic initiatives.

• Lead incident response (primary), ensuring timely triage and resolution within agreed SLAs • Perform root cause analysis (RCA) • Investigate and fix backend bugs in the Django application, including post-launch and integration-related issues • Tune infrastructure and adjust system configurations to improve reliability and stability • Resolve dependency compatibility issues across application and infrastructure layers • Optimize performance of both the application and PostgreSQL database — query tuning, indexing, caching, and connection management • Observability gaps remediation • Runbook refinement • Minor DevOps improvements