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You will own a critical domain of the platform on which Agiloft's CLM product is built as one of a small team of staff engineers who each own a core part of the platform and shape its direction together. This is a backend- and distributed-systems-weighted position with deep ownership of your domain and end-to-end accountability for its design, scalability, reliability, and security as the product and customer base grow.\nYou will work across the organization with engineering leaders, senior engineers, product leaders, and partner teams to understand where the product is going, translate business and product goals into durable platform architectures, and align diverse stakeholders on the technical direction. This means, you will set architectural direction alongside a peer group of staff engineers of your caliber. 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customer and business needs and translate them into platform architectures that solve the problem\nLead the technical design of major platform initiatives end to end, and drive alignment across teams and functions whose priorities and incentives do not always converge.\nIntegrate diverse stakeholders and project teams around a shared technical direction, navigating differing functional interests with sound judgment and strong interpersonal skill.\nProduce clear, rigorous design documents, service contracts, and acceptance criteria that others can review, build on, and trust, setting the standard for technical design on the team.\nUse AI-assisted tools to accelerate and sharpen design and implementation, applying the judgment to know where they add leverage and where deeper thinking is required.\nLead by example in applying AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate architecture, design, implementation, and testing, using sound technical judgment to amplify productivity without compromising quality, maintainability, or depth of thinking.\nAPI DESIGN\nDesign clean, versioned API contracts on top of the platform's data models - including high-scale bulk and asynchronous operations - with deterministic behavior, idempotency, structured error handling, and well-defined limits.\nEstablish contract tests and permission-enforcement validation as first-class parts of every API you design.\nDELIVERY & ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE\nOwn initiatives end to end from design through release, with accountability for product quality in your domain and high standards for reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost across the services you own\nChampion modern practices: infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, continuous delivery, and observability-by-default\nLead platform-modernization and refactoring initiatives while maintaining delivery velocity and improve the developer experience for the services you own.\nIdentify and drive 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