Lead Engineer – Calendar Platform

6+ years of backend engineering experience At least 2 years in technical leadership roles Deep experience designing platforms, frameworks, or extensible APIs used by other developers Hands-on expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable microservices Experience balancing developer flexibility with system guardrails Strong grasp of 'configuration over code' and platform product thinking Strong system design, data modeling, and observability practices Comfortable making architectural trade-offs and driving technical direction in ambiguous spaces

Lead the design and development of core platform primitives Architect a system prioritizing configuration-driven behavior Build scalable, composable services using NestJS, Redis, Firestore, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and GCP services Partner with product managers to translate scheduling needs into developer-facing building blocks Drive platform-wide consistency in API design, configuration modeling, error handling, and extensibility Collaborate across engineering teams to ensure platform reliability, observability, and maintainability Mentor engineers and foster a strong culture of platform thinking, technical excellence, and high ownership