• Grow a high-performing team of backend engineers, managing career development and fostering a culture of continuous growth and humility. • Manage sprint ceremonies and planning meetings to align team efforts with strategic product goals, maintaining a tight feedback loop between engineering and end-users. • Manage tech debt to an appropriate level in a fast-moving, early stage product. Constantly evaluate the tradeoff between building durable, hardened software and scrappy prototypes. • Manage delivery, scheduling, and timelines to optimize predictability of delivery. • Own the technical direction and architectural discussions for the AISim simulation and data platform, ensuring solutions are maintainable, scalable, and secure. Maintain coordination with other engineering teams where technical decisions have cross-team impacts. • Work closely with researchers, product managers, and internal stakeholders to translate complex scientific requirements into clear technical deliverables and implementation plans. • Remain hands-on with code reviews and critical design decisions, establishing best practices for CI/CD pipelines, API design, and cloud infrastructure.