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Keep reading…\nIn this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to: \nLead technical design and delivery of complex features and services — front-end, back-end, or both — documenting architectural trade-offs.\nBreak down large, ambiguous problems into deliverable increments and sequence them with product partners.\nSet and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational readiness across the stack.\nOwn performance and scalability across your area — profiling, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing under production load (for example, high-frequency, real-time data streaming in trading features).\nMentor and coach intermediate and junior developers, delivering constructive code reviews and guiding technical growth regardless of specialization.\nPartner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, and Security to ensure scalable, resilient, and compliant designs across platforms.\nLead incident response for significant outages in your area of ownership, driving blameless post-incident reviews to closure with structural fixes.\nOwn health for key domain components — performance, reliability, and technical debt — on the front end, back end, or both.\nChampion the exploration and adoption of AI tools to improve developer productivity and platform features.\nContribute to technical hiring by conducting technical assessments and candidate interviews, including helping calibrate a candidate's front-end/back-end fit.\nSo are YOU our next Senior Software Engineer ? 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