• Own and evolve core systems for freight brokerage operations and related services: quoting, booking, pricing and rate logic, contracts, carrier compliance, facility matching and location/address data quality, and scheduling-oriented workflows. • Lead technical initiatives across several Python/Django services, including design, phased rollout, and safe deprecation—not only single-service features. • Drive platform and reliability work: database and dependency upgrades, search/indexing changes, performance tuning (queries, indexing, caching), secrets/credential patterns, and tooling that prevents bad deployments (e.g. migration safety, validation pipelines). • Ship high-impact product and revenue work: pricing and benchmark integrations, compliance/load-registration flows, feature-flag and segmentation strategies, and scope-shaping that ties technical design to business outcomes. • Define engineering standards for the squad and beyond: ADRs, shared client/integration layers, test and observability patterns, and code review culture that teaches (SOLID, architecture, thorough PRs)—including shared patterns between API and UI. • Operate production systems: incident response, war-room coordination, root-cause analysis, and fast stabilization PRs when freight brokerage operations are at risk. • Collaborate tightly with product on discovery and requirements—framing problems, narrowing scope with technical options, and sometimes presenting outcomes to senior stakeholders. • Mentor and level up teammates through pairing, design review, and informal leadership—without necessarily being a people manager.