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Lead Engineer, Platform & Architecture

DestifyAnywhereAdded 2d ago
Platform Engineer
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Description Who We Are: We are Destify! We focus on our people, our culture, and our technology. We're reimagining the destination wedding experience, simplifying the complex, celebrating the meaningful, and building technology that connects thousands of couples to their dream celebrations. What You Own Time percentages are planning guides, not stopwatch targets. Seasonal peaks flex; the shape of the year is what matters. Architecture & Technical Direction — 25% Owns how the platform estate is built: patterns, technical approach, and the guardrails everything is measured againstBuilds proofs of concept that are production-ready — the approach is proven, not asserted.Owns that technical documentation and runbooks exist in team spaces, have a named owner per repository, and survive a departureAnticipates the impact of change across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure, and guides the team through the trade-off Platform & Foundations — 20% Technical standards and what "good" means in this codebaseDeveloper operational velocity — the tooling, frameworks, and automation that make shipping safe and fastAI in the developer workflow: adopt, consolidate, retire. Maintains repository-level AI guidance (CLAUDE.md, conventions, test commands, review checklists). Build-versus-buy recommendations on platform tooling Observability & Production Readiness — 20% Owns instrumentation and what gets measured — Honeycomb and the layer beneathLeads the non-functional requirements: security (secrets management, authentication, dependency hygiene), reliability, performance, maintainability, scalabilityOwns the cutover and deployment discipline on complex migrations, starting with the CRM decommission Technical Mentorship & Code Review — 20% Owns the code review standard and holds itTechnical mentorship for the Nepal team, async-first by designRaises the floor on backend services: every system has at least two engineers who can maintain and extend it Feasibility for Product — 15% The single technical answer to "can we build this, what does it cost, what are the alternatives" for every product seatAnswered in refinement, in writing, before commitment Requirements What You Bring : A track record of outcomes you owned end to end. You have evidence of work that got better because you carried it, not just touched it.Reliability and follow-through: people can set a clock by your stated timelines and set deadlines.Curiosity when feedback lands, and the resilience to stay solution-focused when the day gets chaoticArchitectural responsibility across six or more services at once, with examples you can walk throughDepth in containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS preferred). Kubernetes is currently a capability this team does not haveAWS (Lambda, RDS) and infrastructure-as-code, preferably CDK or SAMEdge and DNS as a discipline: CDN, WAF, rate limiting, TLS and cache strategy, and the judgment to move a live domain without dropping traffic. Cloudflare preferredStrong TypeScript/JavaScript and C#; SQL and database design you can defend in review.Observability as a practice, not a tool purchase: you decide what gets instrumented and why (Honeycomb, PostHog)Comfortable in a mixed estate: modern services alongside a LAMP stack — PHP and WordPress on managed hosting — XML/SOAP supplier integrations, an in-house CRM being retired, and an identity layer at end-of-life.Uses Claude Code as an agentic coding partner: writes clear task prompts, reviews proposed changes, and validates results through tests, linting, and buildsHas coached engineers and managed service partners across time zonesNice to have: Helm, Argo CD, HubSpot as a development platform (CRM APIs, UI extensions, webhooks)

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