Lead engineering for a portfolio of consumer mobile apps, overseeing architecture, hands-on development, shared backend platforms, and reusable components. Manage a small team of mobile and backend engineers while partnering with product leadership on roadmap and prioritization. Use retention and engagement data to guide investment, represent the data apps business with executives, and improve development leverage through shared platforms and AI-assisted engineering.

Design, build, and scale backend microservices and APIs for high-volume financial and transactional systems. Implement secure integrations with payment processors and banks, develop data-driven account and transaction services, ensure data integrity and performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver production-grade fintech features with strong development practices.

Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure, automate manual operations, develop Terraform modules and Helm charts, manage Kubernetes and service mesh configurations, monitor GCP databases and services, improve observability, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and use AI coding agents to enhance infrastructure development. Collaborate with engineering teams on instrumentation, architecture, capacity planning, scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience.