Responsibilities
* Delivery and execution. Sprint health, scope discipline, and predictable delivery. You read a sprint like an operator and intervene early and specifically.
* Engineering excellence. The quality bar - code review, test coverage, observability, on‑call health, and incident response. You review your team's PRs yourself.
* Technical leadership. You drive design and review it on the merits - database choices, idempotency, rate limits - across a Java and Python‑based stack with Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Temporal, and Snowflake.
* AI leverage. You use AI as a core operating practice to multiply your team's output, and you raise the team's AI bar in development, review, and instrumentation.
* Product partnership. You partner with Product as a peer – cross‑questioning a brief, asking what's driving a metric and what to instrument before building.
* People leadership. 1:1s, growth, performance, and hiring. You read between the lines, name root causes, and treat engineers with dignity.
Requirements
* 8-10 years of engineering experience, with 2+ years managing engineers as an EM / Sr. EM or equivalent.
* Hands‑on depth in Java (primary) and/or Python, with distributed systems (Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Temporal) and cloud (AWS, Kubernetes).
* A current, demonstrable AI‑assisted development practice.
* Excellent written and verbal communication.
* A track record of hiring and growing engineers.
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