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We find that engineers seeking to understand our product and business better understand the context of their work, which helps them to innovate, deliver more value to their customers and find more purpose in their work.\nRole summary\nAlongside your team counterparts (product, design, data), understand your\ncustomer/business needs/desires/problems to drive desired outcomes and create a strategy\nto drive desired outcomes\nLead, inspire and empower a talented group of engineers to self-organize and discover,\ninnovate, implement, deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions\nDevelop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention\nstrategies in a hyper-growing, highly competitive economic environment\nGuide your team in creation of software as a solution to an end-to-end problem in your\nbusiness domain and deliver value in small batches, taking into account non-functional\nrequirements such as availability, scalability, latency and efficiency 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