• Design, build, and maintain cloud-based backend systems—including APIs, event-driven services, and data pipelines—using AI-assisted development workflows to increase speed and quality. • Work across the full software lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, automated testing, performance tuning, documentation, and verification. • Develop and integrate services with Firestore, Cloud SQL, and other GCP-native components. • Improve engineering processes through automation, developer-efficiency enhancements, monitoring/observability improvements, and cost-optimization initiatives. • Participate in code reviews and champion best practices in API design, security, testing, DevOps, and cloud architecture. • Learn and maintain existing internal applications, modernizing and refactoring where appropriate. • Diagnose and resolve issues alongside QA and SRE teams across lower environments and production. • Use GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and JIRA to manage development and releases. • Participate in on-call rotations as required.