• Help define and execute the engineering strategy and technical roadmap aligned to company objectives. • Lead system architecture decisions to ensure scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability. • Provide hands-on technical leadership—diving into code, architecture, infrastructure, and complex problem-solving when needed. • Ensure engineering best practices, including code quality, testing standards, deployment processes, and security guidelines. • Lead engineering execution from ideation through launch, overseeing full product lifecycles in a 0→1 environment. • Collaborate with Product and Design to define requirements, scope features, and build predictable roadmaps. • Drive delivery excellence—ensuring high velocity, clear accountability, and data-driven prioritization. • Oversee engineering processes, sprint planning, and resource allocation. • Strengthen DevOps, observability, continuous integration/delivery pipelines, and on-call reliability. • Ensure security, compliance, data protection, and architectural governance • Build, scale, and mentor a high-impact engineering organization (internal, contract, nearshore, or hybrid). • Establish a culture of ownership, innovation, technical rigor, and continuous improvement. • Recruit top engineering talent and develop career paths, performance standards, and scalable organizational structures. • Partner with Product, Design, Operations, and Executive teams to align engineering initiatives with business priorities. • Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and impacts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Champion cross-functional collaboration, transparency, and high-quality execution across teams