• Lead a small remote team while staying hands-on: design, implement, and review production-grade code. • Own the architecture and delivery of core DCA infrastructure services, from design through production rollout and continuous improvement. • Build and operate high-scale SaaS services on AWS, with strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and operational excellence. • Design and maintain message-driven components using pub/sub systems and asynchronous processing. • Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD, testing strategy, release safety, monitoring/alerting, and postmortems. • Partner cross-functionally with R&D, Product, and Operations on priorities, interfaces, and dependencies. • Mentor and grow engineers via technical leadership, feedback; support hiring as needed. • Act as an escalation point for production issues: investigate, mitigate, and lead root-cause analysis.