Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend systems and REST microservices. Implement APIs, optimize performance, ensure infrastructure health on AWS, triage/resolve bugs, reduce technical debt, participate in design/code reviews, and mentor junior engineers while influencing tech choices and engineering best practices.

Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend systems and microservices using Python/FastAPI. Implement and optimize REST APIs, troubleshoot and resolve bugs, participate in design/code reviews, reduce technical debt, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Ensure cloud-native reliability and infrastructure health, leveraging RDBMS, message queues, caching, and Elasticsearch.