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The customer requires one Staff (IC5) engineer to support day-to-day backend integrations and policy platform use cases. This role is ideal for a hands-on backend engineer who can take ownership of integration work on a policy platform, set technical direction for a small delivery team, and become productive on a customer codebase with minimal ramp-up. 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