What You’ll DoTechnical Strategy:Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for Golang-based backend services, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and platform initiatives.Architectural Leadership:Lead the design and evolution of Postgres-backed distributed systems, prioritizing high performance, multi-region reliability, and complex data workflows (CDC).Complexity Reduction:Identify systemic redundancies across teams; lead efforts to consolidate tools and services to simplify the developer experience and reduce organizational complexity.Operational Excellence:Set the standard for observability and operational health. Influence the strategy for platform availability and lead initiatives to improve system resilience.Cross-Functional Influence:Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security leadership to negotiate technical trade-offs and ensure the platform scales efficiently.Sponsorship & Mentorship:Actively sponsor the growth of Senior and Mid-level engineers through deep technical guidance, rigorous code reviews, and career-shaping feedback.Culture of Excellence:Champion best practices in software design, CI/CD, and automation, fostering a culture of technical rigor and continuous improvement.What You’ll BringProfessional Depth:8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of leading large-scale initiatives from architectural design to production.Golang Mastery:Expert proficiency in Golang and a deep understanding of distributed systems design, concurrency patterns, and performance optimization.Data Architecture:Significant experience with Postgres, including advanced schema design, query optimization at scale, and managing high-volume data pipelines.Systemic Thinking:Proven ability to design resilient, high-availability services that operate under heavy global load.Influence Without Authority:Exceptional ability to drive consensus across multiple engineering teams and influence technical direction through collaboration.Communication:Excellence in distilling complex technical concepts into clear, actionable strategies for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Proactive Problem Solving:A history of identifying and resolving ambiguous, high-impact technical debt and architectural bottlenecks.Preferred QualificationsDistributed Systems:Experience with modern microservices communication patterns and service-oriented architectures.Polyglot Awareness:Exposure to other languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, or Node.js in a service-oriented environment.Cloud Infrastructure:Familiarity with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and deploying/operating services within major cloud providers (AWS or Azure).Infrastructure as Code:Experience or familiarity with automating infrastructure deployment and management.Note:This description focuses on the role responsibilities and qualifications. Salary and total rewards information, benefits, and equal opportunity statements are provided as part of the company’s public postings and policies where applicable. Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. Reasonable accommodations are available on request during the application process. For more information about our privacy practices, please see our Personnel and Candidate Privacy Notice.#J-18808-Ljbffr