Senior Engineer

📋 Description

• • **Shape the Future of Scalable Platforms:** Join a dynamic, technology-driven company as a Senior Engineer and play a pivotal role in architecting and evolving complex, scalable platforms. This is an exceptional opportunity to dive deep into the core of a growing business, focusing on user workflows, robust e-commerce transactions, seamless subscription management, and intricate third-party service integrations. You will be instrumental in maintaining and strengthening the architectural foundations and data models that underpin our client's success, ensuring a delicate yet powerful balance between rapid development, unwavering reliability, and the long-term health of their systems.
• • **Lead Data Modeling and Architectural Vision:** As a Senior Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader, taking full ownership of complex data models and the overarching system architecture. Your expertise will guide the design and continuous evolution of the domain model, which is critical for managing everything from user registrations and sophisticated e-commerce transactions to subscription renewals and essential third-party integrations. This role demands not only technical prowess but also the ability to actively mentor and uplift other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and shared learning.
• • **Drive End-to-End Feature Delivery:** You will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of feature delivery, spanning from the backend logic to the frontend user experience. This involves ensuring seamless functionality and a cohesive user journey across the entire technology stack. Your work will directly impact complex workflows, including user registrations, the intricacies of subscription renewals, high-volume e-commerce transactions, and the critical integration of payment gateways and other third-party services. Furthermore, you will be tasked with maintaining the operational resilience of background jobs that are vital for supporting these mission-critical tasks, ensuring that processes run smoothly and efficiently behind the scenes.
• • **Champion Mentorship and Technical Leadership:** This role is as much about people as it is about code. You will actively mentor mid-level engineers, providing guidance and support to help them grow their technical skills and career trajectories. You will also guide junior developers, instilling best practices and fostering their development into highly competent engineers. Leading code reviews will be a significant part of your responsibilities, with a keen focus on data modeling best practices, robust architectural patterns, and the principles of clean, maintainable code. You will set the technical direction by establishing patterns and standards for modules, services, and data models that are directly aligned with the company's strategic business goals.
• • **Foster Collaboration and Clear Communication:** You will work directly with product teams and company founders, translating high-level business requirements into clear, actionable technical designs. A key aspect of this role is the ability to break down complex work into coherent, manageable projects, ensuring alignment across both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will be expected to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and concisely, proactively proposing improvements that enhance the overall quality, performance, and scalability of the system.
• • **Ensure Production Readiness and System Resilience:** Designing safe, reversible database migrations is paramount to ensure that system updates can be implemented without disruption. You will be responsible for ensuring the scalability and reliability of production systems, anticipating potential bottlenecks and implementing solutions proactively. Taking ownership of background jobs, optimizing queue usage, and implementing robust observability through monitoring tools like Grafana will be crucial for maintaining system health and performance. Your commitment to production readiness will directly contribute to the stability and success of the platform.
• • **Impact and Growth:** This role offers a unique opportunity to take significant ownership of core system architecture and domain modeling within a rapidly growing and complex platform. As a Senior Engineer and Tech Lead, you will have a direct and measurable impact on the technical direction, system scalability, and the establishment of high engineering standards. You will collaborate closely with product leaders and mentor a team of talented developers as the platform continues its evolution. Success in this role will be defined by the creation of scalable and maintainable data models that effortlessly support high-volume transactions, the reliable delivery of both backend and frontend features at scale, and the development of a high-performing engineering team through strong technical mentorship, all while ensuring clear alignment between business needs and long-term system architecture.