Requirements Summary

You will bring a sustained record of technical leadership across more than one team or a broad product area, deep backend architecture and production experience, experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production, a strong ability to create alignment through clear written proposals and decision records, the ability to balance customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment, experience mentoring engineers, and production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows

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Role Overview As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solving the highest-scope and most complex problems in your area. What You Will Do Lead Cross-Cutting Initiatives, Own Architecture Strategy, Set the Standards, Establish Shared Patterns, Own What You Build in Production, Influence and Partner, Grow Engineers, Lead AI Adoption. Why It Might Be a Fit You'll lead the modernization of a large monolith toward modular, reusable, appropriately independent systems — at the scale of a platform used by millions of users. You'll shape technical direction across teams without formal authority, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform-level roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs. Requirements Cross-Team Technical Leadership Deep Architecture Experience Modularization in Production Influence Without Authority Product Judgment Mentorship Agentic AI Leadership Benefits Flexible Paid Time Off Team Member Resource Groups Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan Growth and Development Fund Parental Leave

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