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We care about getting things into users' hands and iterating from there.\n\nDeep knowledge and practical experience with cloud-based services, containerization, and API development.\n\nExperience optimizing data architectures for performance and cost.\n\nYou take ownership. When something is broken or unclear, you fix it or flag it without waiting to be asked.\n\nComfortable with ambiguity. You make reasonable calls with incomplete information, communicate them clearly, and adjust as you learn more.\n\nStrong product sense and bias for action. We're a small team and can't afford analysis paralysis - we make decisions with incomplete information and learn from real customer feedback.\n\nA future leader. 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