SeniorIIEngineer

Several years operating as a senior backend engineer, with a clear track record of leading technical initiatives end to end across a product domain., Experience contributing to the design of distributed systems in production, including the operational realities such as failure modes, observability, data consistency, and graceful degradation., A track record of solving scaling problems, whether database scaling, throughput, latency, or cost. You can talk through a real example end to end: how you measured the problem, what you changed, and what the outcome was., Experience designing and operating event driven architectures in production, including message queues or streaming systems, with a clear understanding of delivery guarantees, idempotency, and failure handling., design skills around APIs, service boundaries, and the flow of data from persistent storage through to clients., Python experience, including modern web frameworks (we use FastAPI with Pydantic and typing)., Deep working knowledge of SQL and relational data modelling., Excellent collaboration and communication, including the ability to explain complex systems and tradeoffs to non technical stakeholders., A product and customer mindset, with the judgement to balance shipping value against long term system health., A high bar for code quality, testability, and operational maturity, and the habit of raising that bar through review and mentorship.