- Own all architectural decisions across Node 20, Express, TypeScript and be accountable for production outcomes
- Write and review production code regularly - estimated 40-60% of your time, with the remainder owning architectural oversight, resource allocation, and technical coordination across the stack
- Define engineering standards across the team - code review gates, testing coverage, observability requirements, and incident post-mortems
- Lead technical decisions on LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP integrations, and AI cost management
- Own the integration layer between the Node/TypeScript backend and Python automation layer, preventing cascading failures
- Drive infrastructure maturity with the DevOps Engineer - IaC standards, observability baselines, AWS ECS Fargate migration
- Own how the engineering team operates - allocate technical resources across workstreams, sequence priorities, remove blockers, and ensure the team is running at full technical capacity at all times
- Identify and resolve technical debt proactively through architecture reviews and refactoring sprints
- Communicate architectural trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, translating constraints into business impact
- Serve as the technical counterpart to the Product leads in translating product and business direction into engineering decisions, surfacing risks early, and owning the feedback loop between what is being built and how it is being buitl
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