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This individual will play a key role in driving platform scalability, enterprise feature development, security initiatives, and SOC 2 readiness while helping modernize engineering practices through AI-enabled development tools and workflows.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nTechnical Ownership\n\nOwn the Testimonials platform, including architecture, code quality, infrastructure, and production reliability.\nManage and enhance Kubernetes-based deployments, observability, scalability, and release processes.\nMake and document key architectural decisions.\nMaintain operational and technical documentation.\nSupport platform growth and increasing customer demand.\n\nEngineering Leadership\n\nLead day-to-day delivery of the product roadmap.\nPartner with Product on roadmap planning and technical tradeoffs.\nEstablish engineering standards through code and design reviews.\nMentor engineers and coordinate contractor resources as needed.\n\nSecurity & Compliance\n\nLead engineering efforts supporting SOC 2 readiness.\nImplement secure development, change control, and access management practices.\nPartner with Security and Compliance teams to strengthen platform controls.\n\nPlatform Growth\n\nDeliver enterprise features, dashboards, and customer-requested enhancements.\nSupport platform integrations and modernization initiatives.\nDrive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and automated engineering workflows.\nQualifications\n8+ years of software engineering experience.\nExperience owning a production SaaS platform.\nStrong hands-on experience with Go, React, Kubernetes, and AWS architecture.\nProven ability to support, troubleshoot, and scale production systems.\nExperience leading a small engineering team or technical workstream.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nComfortable working independently in a fast-moving environment.\nInterest in AI-assisted software development practices.\nNice to Have Skills\nMySQL and REST API experience.\nSOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance experience.\nExperience in regulated industries such as financial services or insurance.\nCI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling experience.\nExperience supporting enterprise customers and delivering custom solutions.\nFamiliarity with AI-enabled SDLC improvements.\nOur Vetting Process\n\nAt Emergent Staffing, we work hard to find the who are the right fit for our clients. 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This individual will play a key role in driving platform scalability, enterprise feature development, security initiatives, and SOC 2 readiness while helping modernize engineering practices through AI-enabled development tools and workflows.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nTechnical Ownership\n\nOwn the Testimonials platform, including architecture, code quality, infrastructure, and production reliability.\nManage and enhance Kubernetes-based deployments, observability, scalability, and release processes.\nMake and document key architectural decisions.\nMaintain operational and technical documentation.\nSupport platform growth and increasing customer demand.\n\nEngineering Leadership\n\nLead day-to-day delivery of the product roadmap.\nPartner with Product on roadmap planning and technical tradeoffs.\nEstablish engineering standards through code and design reviews.\nMentor engineers and coordinate contractor resources as needed.\n\nSecurity & Compliance\n\nLead engineering efforts supporting SOC 2 readiness.\nImplement secure development, change control, and access management practices.\nPartner with Security and Compliance teams to strengthen platform controls.\n\nPlatform Growth\n\nDeliver enterprise features, dashboards, and customer-requested enhancements.\nSupport platform integrations and modernization initiatives.\nDrive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and automated engineering workflows.\nQualifications\n8+ years of software engineering experience.\nExperience owning a production SaaS platform.\nStrong hands-on experience with Go, React, Kubernetes, and AWS architecture.\nProven ability to support, troubleshoot, and scale production systems.\nExperience leading a small engineering team or technical workstream.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nComfortable working independently in a fast-moving environment.\nInterest in AI-assisted software development practices.\nNice to Have Skills\nMySQL and REST API experience.\nSOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance experience.\nExperience in regulated industries such as financial services or insurance.\nCI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling experience.\nExperience supporting enterprise customers and delivering custom solutions.\nFamiliarity with AI-enabled SDLC improvements.\nOur Vetting Process\n\nAt Emergent Staffing, we work hard to find the who are the right fit for our clients. 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