• Develop and maintain mission-critical business logic using Rust and the Tokio runtime • Take full ownership of your stack using Terraform • Profile memory usage and execution timing • Design and implement robust REST APIs • Mentor others and conduct rigorous code reviews

• Architect and implement microservices, APIs, and scalable server infrastructures supporting millions of concurrent users. • Design for high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency. • Write clean, efficient, and secure code (primarily C# and Go, plus Java or similar). • Optimize performance, conduct rigorous testing, and implement monitoring/logging. • Leverage AWS, GCP, or Azure for scalable deployments. • Develop auto-scaling, load-balancing, and disaster-recovery strategies. • Partner with designers and engineers to integrate gameplay features (events, leaderboards, live-ops) with backend services. • Mentor junior engineers, review code, and champion best practices. • Implement robust security measures to protect player data. • Ensure data consistency across distributed systems using SQL and NoSQL solutions. • Stay current with industry trends. • Lead post-mortems and implement preventative improvements.

• Build and maintain features across our CLI, backend, and frontend • Take ownership of projects from idea through deployment and beyond • Collaborate closely with teammates including product management, sharing context, asking questions, and giving thoughtful feedback • Help establish engineering practices that scale as we grow • Contribute to a culture where people feel supported, heard, and excited about the work

• Drive the development and scalability of backend systems powering thousands of live events globally. • Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability through proactive architecture and code quality initiatives. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing features efficiently and safely. • Influence the technical roadmap and implement best practices for API design, database modeling, and service integration. • Contribute to team knowledge and mentorship through code reviews and shared engineering standards. • Own backend execution for customer-facing features from design through production release. • Translate product requirements into secure, maintainable backend solutions. • Design clean data models and RESTful APIs. • Support third-party integrations and internal service communication. • Evaluate legacy systems and propose incremental improvements. • Contribute to long-term backend architecture roadmaps. • Balance technical debt reduction with feature velocity. • Establish and uphold backend standards for API design, performance, and maintainability. • Optimize PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, and queries for performance. • Profile APIs and resolve bottlenecks. • Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, and tracing tools. • Improve system reliability and scalability. • Partner with a predominantly front-end team to identify risks and constraints. • Participate in planning, estimation, and technical design discussions. • Mentor engineers and share knowledge through code reviews.