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Medium — metro Principal backend at recognizable brand with broad technical requirements attracts moderate competition.
Medium — core backend and distributed-systems skills transfer widely, though travel/payments domain experience adds some bias.
High — explicit 10–18 years requirement plus deep distributed systems, cloud, security, and leadership mandates.
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Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale, distributed backend systems focusing on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Drive technical decisions, set engineering standards, and lead architecture reviews and incident postmortems across teams.
Mentor senior engineers and partner cross-functionally to influence platform modernization, observability, and developer productivity initiatives.
10-18 years of backend engineering experience with at least 2 years in a principal or staff-level role.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures (GCP/AWS/Azure), microservices, and data platforms.
Proficiency in backend languages such as Java (Spring Boot), Go, Python, or Node.js and strong database knowledge (MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB).
Working knowledge of frontend ecosystems and strong experience with authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC) and event systems (Kafka, GCP PubSub).
Experienced technical leader with proven ability to drive system design, architecture governance, and cross-team alignment in large-scale backend services.
Demonstrated thought leadership via papers, talks, patents, or open-source contributions, indicating strategic and innovative mindset.
Preferably has startup experience and a strong focus on observability, benchmarking, and cost optimization in distributed backend environments.