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From prototype to production in days. The patterns you establish become core product features.\nThis role combines software engineering, product thinking, and customer partnership. High autonomy, high impact.\nWhat You’ll Do\nEmbed & ship: Work directly in customer instances. Identify high-leverage problems. Build full-stack: React, Django, PostgreSQL. Ship in weeks, not quarters.\n\nOwn outcomes: Define ambiguous problems and deliver scalable solutions. Design systems that handle 10x usage.\n\nBridge product ↔ customer: Your field work informs roadmap. Convert one-off solutions into platform capabilities.\n\nFull lifecycle: Discovery, system design, data modeling, infra, frontend, deployment, monitoring. You build it, run it, and scale it.\n\nEnsure reliability: AWS / GCP. Deploy, monitor, debug. Ensure reliability.\n\nValidate and scale: Prototype with real users. Measure impact. Invest in what works.\n\nYou Are\nHigh-ownership: Comfortable with ambiguity. 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