Lead, coach, and develop senior engineers responsible for supporting shared core libraries utilized by multiple engineering teams.
Partner with product and business stakeholders to align technical investments with company strategy, balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term priorities.
Guide teams in building distributed, event-driven, and fault-tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, Redis/Redis PubSub, and Postgres.
Provide architectural oversight and ensure best practices are applied when teams build new services leveraging the core shared libraries in Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot.
Partner with product domain engineering managers and tech leads to prioritize shared library enhancements
Set and measure engineering goals (availability, performance, delivery cadence, quality) and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
Champion diversity, inclusion, and growth, ensuring that engineers thrive in a supportive and challenging environment.
Recruit, retain, and scale top engineering talent to meet the demands of growing systems and business needs.
Advocate for engineering across the organization, influencing leadership on technology strategy and distributed systems investment.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineering teams.
Experience owning shared libraries consumed by multiple teams
Proven success leading teams building and operating distributed systems at scale.
Strong track record of building engineering organizations that deliver business-critical systems with reliability and speed.
Familiarity with modern backend stacks, particularly Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders.
Passion for building teams and cultures that deliver impactful results.
Experience leading multi-team programs or platform transformations.
Background in scaling organizations through high-growth phases.
Able to deal with ambiguity and strong self-motivation.

Benefits

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Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

KotlinJavaSpring BootPostgresKafkaRedisKubernetesdistributed systemsevent-driven systemsfault-tolerant systems

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationinfluencecoachingteam buildingdiversity and inclusionself-motivationaccountabilitystrategic alignmentadaptability