7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating backend or platform systems in production
Significant experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend systems
Strong architectural judgment around stateful services, real-time or near-real-time decisioning, asynchronous processing, system reliability, and production operations
Hands‑on technical leadership experience: you are comfortable being the go‑to person for unblocking, reviewing, mentoring, and leading complex technical initiatives end‑to‑end
Experience translating ambiguous product goals into pragmatic technical designs and incremental execution plans
Familiarity with systems that process high‑volume event data, such as event stream processing, behavioral analytics, pub/sub systems, workflow systems, rule engines, or decisioning engines