• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. • 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 building services in Kotlin/Java with Spring Boot. • Drive organizational excellence in deployment, scalability, and operations through Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform. • 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.