Staff Backend Engineer - Promos

Responsibilities

• Technical strategy and architecture
• Own backend technical direction for the assigned product domain, such as Promos, while aligning with shared platform, cloud, data, and service standards.
• Partner with Principal and Staff Engineers and teams that own shared capabilities such as identity, payments, compliance, messaging, and platform services, integrating those capabilities while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.
• Guide architecture evolution and modernization, balancing product delivery, technical debt, scalability, and platform investment through pragmatic decisions, clear tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead major restructuring work through planned iterative delivery: establish the target end state before execution, decompose the initiative into sequenced tickets, surface dependencies and risks, and provide credible delivery dates that are updated as evidence changes.
• Promotional and backend capabilities
• Build scalable and reliable promotion lifecycle capabilities, including configuration, eligibility, activation, state transitions, rewards, expiration, auditability, idempotency, and recovery.
• Partner with Product, Mobile, Web, Back Office, Data, and Operations to define service boundaries, API and event contracts, experimentation, success measures, and operational controls.
• Design resilient services for high traffic and transaction volume, using appropriate data consistency, caching, asynchronous processing, rate controls, and graceful degradation strategies.
• Execution, quality, and operations

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