Architecture, Design & Technical Direction 

• Create architecture, prototypes, and design proposals that deliver near-term business value while aligning with the future-state product and platform vision. 

• Influence technical direction through architecture reviews, RFCs, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration. 

• Partner with senior developers, architects, and tech leads to define and execute the product/platform architecture roadmap. 

• Balance delivery speed, quality, maintainability, and long-term platform health when making technical decisions. 

Delivery & Engineering Excellence 

• Break down large initiatives into parallelizable chunks of work that deliver incremental business value. 

• Champion proposals through all phases of the SDLC, from design through production implementation. 

• Contribute to improving the core product build, CI/CD pipelines, and overall SDLC. 

• Troubleshoot and eliminate root causes of persistent production issues; drive reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident response. 

• Keep technical documentation current and create new artifacts as needed. 

Collaboration & Leadership 

• Facilitate design discussions within and across teams. 

• Represent the team in technical discussions with Tech Leads, Operations, Product/UX, Security, Domain SMEs, and external stakeholders. 

• Act as a trusted technical leader, helping teams succeed through collaboration, influence, and shared ownership. 

• Mentor other developers through design reviews, pair programming, and code reviews; contribute to raising overall engineering maturity. 

• Share knowledge of new technologies and industry best practices to strengthen team-wide coding standards. 

• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and cloud capabilities that could benefit the platform. 

Back End Platform Responsibilities 

• Design and build key features and architectural improvements for the platform, end-to-end, using modern .NET technology and architecture. 

• Take initiative on complex, business-critical challenges such as third-party extensibility and real-time multi-user synchronization. 

• Build and maintain services across both monolith and microservice architecture. 

• Create and optimize complex SQL Server queries, stored procedures, and functions. 

• Collaborate with a team of deep technical experience and strong domain knowledge; brainstorm and share ideas within an agile team of developers, testers, and a product owner. 

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; 8+ years of professional software development experience with demonstrated impact beyond a single team. 

• In-depth experience with server-side .NET and C#, including highly distributed microservice architecture. 

• Proven experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native, SaaS/multi-tenant platforms at scale, ideally on AWS. 

• Strong software fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, SOLID principles, and a track record of advocating for code quality. 

• Experience with test-driven development, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. 

• Experience designing and consuming well-designed HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL, or similar). 

• Experience with both monolith applications and microservices. 

• Knowledge of relational databases, such as SQL Server. 

• Experience mentoring developers and influencing architectural decisions across teams. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with ambiguity and evolving requirements. 

• Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and product quality.