• Architect, build, and evolve backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations that support millions of users and thousands of sports organizations. • Own complex backend product and technical work from discovery through design, implementation, rollout, production support, and long term maintainability. • Lead ambiguous technical initiatives by breaking down problems, identifying risks, making practical tradeoffs, and helping teams move from uncertainty to clear execution. • Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operability of production systems through thoughtful architecture, strong testing practices, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up. • Debug complex production issues by reasoning across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and the broader request lifecycle. • Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable backend systems and practical delivery plans. • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, mentor engineers, influence cross-team alignment and articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing • Own end-to-end delivery of payment features • Partner with engineers and product managers to translate product vision into technical plans • Drive improvements to system reliability and performance • Contribute to engineering quality through code reviews and best practices

• Participate in client discovery and technical assessment meetings as the lead Ruby on Rails subject matter expert. • Analyze existing Ruby on Rails applications, architecture, and codebases to identify risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities. • Lead system takeover assessments and evaluate legacy applications. • Develop technical roadmaps, modernization strategies, and implementation recommendations. • Provide architectural guidance for cloud-native and serverless environments hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. • Evaluate current infrastructure, deployment processes, and application performance. • Recommend best practices for maintainability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. • Produce technical documentation, architecture recommendations, and implementation plans. • Support engineering teams throughout project planning and execution phases when required.

• Build, improve, and operate backend services that power LaunchDarkly’s Flag Delivery systems. • Contribute to systems that support streaming and polling delivery models for LaunchDarkly SDKs. • Debug production issues, improve service reliability, and help the team maintain strong standards around latency, availability, observability, and operability. • Work with technologies and patterns common to modern distributed backend systems, including caching layers, network services, concurrency, failure handling, and cloud infrastructure. • Collaborate closely with partner teams including SDK, Platform, SRE, Security, and Enterprise to deliver improvements across the broader platform. • Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership of the systems you help build. • Learn the existing architecture deeply and make pragmatic improvements that increase system clarity, performance, and maintainability. • Use AI as part of your engineering workflow with sound judgment, including knowing when to use it, how to direct it effectively, and how to verify or reject its output. • Reason clearly about code, architecture, and whole-system behavior even when AI is in the loop.