Drive the development of cutting-edge platforms and interactive web applications, using technologies such as TypeScript, Node.js, and React, that integrate seamlessly with our core event-driven architecture (Kafka). Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure on platforms like GCP or AWS, ensuring our innovative products are built on a solid foundation. Own technical knowledge across the full stack and infrastructure, retaining architectural context while providing guidance on modern web standards, API design, and event-driven patterns. Be hands-on by writing and owning production-quality code, from GraphQL APIs and streaming consumers to interactive front-ends. Setting a high bar through thoughtful PR reviews and continuously improving reliability and operability. Act as a technical mentor to engineers on full-stack development, cloud-native principles, and best practices for interacting with streaming data platforms like Kafka. Influence the technical direction of product innovation by collaborating with senior leadership, helping to establish well-designed and well-documented cloud architectures, and bringing new concepts from prototype to production.