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Role Description

Own Architecture: Align backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure decisions into a coherent, enterprise-grade architecture.

Reflect Excellence: Replace "firefighting" with predictable execution. You will lead the effort to retire scalability and reliability debt, safely upgrade critical infrastructure, and reduce single-threaded dependencies.

Set Direction: Set the standard for engineering technical hygiene. You will drive high-level decisions on testing strategies, validation guardrails, and system design concerns that directly impact delivery speed and maintainability.

Evolve Systems: Modernize and scale existing production systems by applying database-level strategies (schema evolution, replication tradeoffs) and platform primitives (orchestration, runtime constraints) as architectural tools.

Mentor: Elevate the organization by establishing shared practices, aligning terminology, and mentoring senior talent across the engineering team.

Exhibit First-Principles Thinking: Establish a deep understanding of data systems, latency-sensitive services, and failure modes.

Qualifications

• Mastery of performance-sensitive REST APIs, caching strategies, and core distributed systems concepts.
• Expert-level PostgreSQL (upgrades, query tuning, replication tradeoffs, and schema evolution) and advanced SQL.
• Deep experience with Azure and/or AWS and production-grade Kubernetes/Docker.
• Strong production experience in Node.js and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience with Observability (logs, metrics, traces), CI/CD, SRE fundamentals (SLIs/SLOs), and security hygiene (IAM, secrets management).

Requirements

• Experience in logistics, warehouse systems, or robotics-adjacent platforms is a plus, but not required.
• If you have operated at a slightly smaller scale but can reason clearly about "what breaks next" (e.g., multi-regional architectures or advanced data governance), we will help you bridge that gap.
• While we value experience driving org-wide standards, we don't expect perfection on day one. We look for the intent to elevate our shared practices as you build trust.
• At Gather, we are at the leading edge of both applied classical ML and next-gen LLM/VLM AI. Come prepared to work with the latest and greatest tooling.