Provides technical leadership across teams by designing and delivering large backend initiatives, modernizing monolithic systems into modular architectures, and establishing standards for APIs, data, testing, security, observability, deployment, and reliability. Leads production operations, incident response, AI-assisted engineering adoption, technical roadmap decisions, mentorship, and technical debt reduction. The role emphasizes scalable backend platforms, cross-team influence, and architecture strategy.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and services while ensuring security, performance, maintainability, and observability. Review code, improve automated testing, investigate deployment and runtime failures, address technical debt, participate in operational support, collaborate asynchronously with cross-functional partners, and use AI coding tools responsibly.