- A proven track record of building and scaling high-performing full-stack engineering teams as a hands-on, technical leader.
- Strong product intuition and technical depth, with the ability to translate product vision into robust, scalable technical specifications.
- A systems-thinking, platform-oriented approach to building features, providing architectural guidance and hands-on support to ensure the team builds reusable APIs and components.
- The technical-strategy and problem-solving instincts to navigate complex system constraints, dive into logs or code to unblock the team, and partner effectively with Product Managers to make the right trade-offs.
- Comfort operating in high-ambiguity, growth-oriented environments where you need to balance rapid iteration with long-term system stability and team development.
- Experience working in domains impacted by complex legal or regulatory compliance (e.g., Privacy, Safety, Fintech, or Identity).
- Experience leading teams building high-availability systems for a global user base across diverse geographies and languages.
- A track record of taking new products or major platform-level feature sets from initial concept to successful global launch.
- Experience architecting services that handle hundreds of thousands or even millions of requests per second with strict latency requirements.