5+ years of software engineering experience Fluent in writing and speaking English Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React (Express, Hono, Next.js) Proven experience with databases and performance tuning (Postgres, Clickhouse) Infrastructure and reliability skills (Datadog, AWS, CDK) Understand how to design systems with safety and fail-safe operations in mind Comfortable with APIs, event-driven architectures, and stateful services Care deeply about observability: metrics, logs, tracing, error handling Take ownership across the stack — from frontend surfaces down to databases and queues Have worked in trust, safety, fraud, or security domains Have exposure to real-time enforcement systems, such as rate-limiting