5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer Direct experience building event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, or notifications infrastructure Deep knowledge of asynchronous architectures, including message queues, state machines, and tools like Celery, Kafka, Temporal, or Step Functions Strong backend development skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript Hands-on experience building multi-channel messaging systems (Slack, email, in-app) Familiarity with compliance and governance use cases A track record of designing developer platforms, internal tools, or infrastructure