• Design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems. • Provide technical direction across multiple applications and services. • Lead architecture and design discussions and document important technical decisions. • Translate business and product requirements into practical technical plans. • Break down initiatives, coordinate technical work, and manage dependencies and blockers. • Collaborate with Product, Operations, and other engineering teams to coordinate delivery. • Design and maintain APIs, database schemas, integrations, and data contracts. • Improve system performance, security, observability, and maintainability. • Review code and technical designs and help maintain engineering standards. • Debug complex production issues and lead the technical response to incidents. • Write and maintain automated tests, technical documentation, and CI/CD workflows. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.

• Design, develop, and ship robust full stack features in Rails and Hotwire • Ownership of the full development lifecycle — concept, design, testing, and deployment • Own data modeling, database design, and query performance (PostgreSQL) • Build and maintain background job processing and asynchronous workflows • Optimize application performance, scalability, and resource utilization • Partner with cross-functional teams to turn requirements into technical solutions • Conduct code reviews and uphold coding standards and best practices • Drive continuous improvement of development processes and workflows

• Design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems. • Provide technical direction across multiple applications and services. • Lead architecture and design discussions and document important technical decisions. • Translate business and product requirements into practical technical plans. • Break down initiatives, coordinate technical work, and manage dependencies and blockers. • Collaborate with Product, Operations, and other engineering teams to coordinate delivery. • Design and maintain APIs, database schemas, integrations, and data contracts. • Improve system performance, security, observability, and maintainability. • Review code and technical designs and help maintain engineering standards. • Debug complex production issues and lead the technical response to incidents. • Write and maintain automated tests, technical documentation, and CI/CD workflows. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.

• Lead the design and evolution of mission-critical backend systems • Own architecture across multiple products, services, and engineering squads • Design scalable distributed systems capable of supporting millions of customers and high transaction volumes • Drive architecture decisions across product, platform, infrastructure, security, and data teams • Lead architecture and system-design reviews for high-impact initiatives • Balance immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability • Identify systemic engineering challenges before they become organisational bottlenecks • Improve system reliability, performance, security, observability, and operational resilience • Lead the modernisation of backend platforms, legacy systems, developer tooling, and engineering workflows • Establish strong engineering patterns across microservices, event-driven architecture, API design, and domain-driven design • Coordinate complex technical initiatives across multiple teams • Align technical decisions with customer needs and wider business priorities • Resolve architectural disagreements through data, collaboration, and technical expertise • Strengthen CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud infrastructure, and automation • Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design reviews, technical documentation, and mentoring • Write and lead technical proposals, architecture documents, RFCs, and engineering standards • Mentor Senior Engineers and help them develop towards Staff-level responsibilities • Share technical knowledge through workshops, engineering talks, documentation, and internal communities • Partner with Engineering Directors, Heads of Engineering, and Product Leadership on strategic technology investments