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Responsibilities:
- Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
- Lead and grow a small, senior applications team.
- Ensure production-grade reliability: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
Outcomes:
- Production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load.
- Decisions consistently balance speed, cost, reliability, and user experience.
- Features across backend, mobile, and desktop work smoothly and reliably.
Qualifications:
- Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required.
- Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production.
Next Step Systems
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