• Hands-on Senior Backend Engineer role focused on performance, reliability, and operational excellence • Design, build, and maintain backend services powering mission-critical platform functions • Evolve and optimize underlying data models for scalability and performance • Work across the stack: APIs, databases, deployment, and observability • Diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues in production • Collaborate on architecture and operational strategy for high-availability systems • Implement and refine monitoring, alerting, and metrics collection • Balance long-term engineering quality with pragmatic delivery • Tackle challenges in scaling, data modeling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and observability