What You'll Do

• Architect, build, and maintain a generalized payment infrastructure at scale. Ensure the infrastructure can adapt to the evolving needs of Credit Genie products.
• Own the design & evolution of our backend systems and build for the next 4 years of continued scale and growth of Credit Genie
• Identify gaps in our current designs and lead redesigns of our backend systems to improve throughput, latency, and developer velocity.
• Help architect the core backend services to have four 9s (99.99%) availability and low latency.
• Set and define standards that improve developer workflows, code quality, and product quality.
• Mentor the engineers to further their professional development.
• Leverage Gen AI to improve Developer productivity, code quality, and product quality
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team environment.
• Work with stakeholders from product, marketing, etc. on initiatives aligning with our KPIs and business priorities

Requirements

• Deep understanding of how to build a sustainable backend platform at a large scale engineering organization
• 10 years of Software Development experience with at least 5 years in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP). Expert in at least two programming languages.
• Experience in influencing organizations on technical direction/best practices
• Passion for developing scalable, well-designed software that improves developer’s lives while also seamlessly supporting scale and reliability
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, business & data teams to deliver great experiences.
• Strong focus on user experience, usability, scalability, reliability, and quality. You are an undying advocate for the user, and you have a deep intuition for how people & machines interact with software at scale.
• High empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to find compromise working across the entire engineering org.
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed and innovative, you build trust and are biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills