7+ years of professional software development experience. 3+ years of experience building full-stack applications. Professional experience with backend technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Python, or C#. Professional experience with frontend technologies: React or similar. Professional experience with databases: PostgreSQL or another relational database. Experience designing, building, and maintaining production systems. Experience with serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway) preferred. Production experience with GraphQL preferred. Familiarity with event-driven and microservice architectures preferred. Exposure to multi-tenant systems and role-based access control preferred. Track record of contributing to architecture and system design preferred. Comfortable in high-context, async-first engineering teams preferred. Daily user of AI-enhanced engineering tools (Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) preferred. Interest or experience in integrating LLMs into production systems preferred.