• 10+ years of software development experience, primarily focused on backend services, with comfort working on frontend technologies.
• Expertise in distributed systems and designing scalable services on Kubernetes.
• Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and message passing architectures (Kafka, Red Panda, gRPC/protobufs).
• Advanced backend service and API development skills using modern programming languages (Python, Golang, Rust, Ruby).
• Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, and separation of concerns.
• Experience with frontend technologies, including Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and React.
• Proven ability to design and implement solutions using various database types (relational, columnar, document, vector).
• Skilled at integrating observability and performance monitoring into all aspects of system design.
• Ability to work across service, database, and infrastructure boundaries to address design and performance challenges.