• Lead and mentor a team of 10+ engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure disciplines, ensuring alignment on execution and quality. • Oversee resource planning, sprint management, and release cadence to deliver features that blend banking-grade reliability with a premium user experience. • Collaborate with the leadership team to define long-term technical architecture — spanning payments systems, card processing integrations, and travel rewards platform. • Improve best-in-class engineering processes: CI/CD pipelines, code review standards, automated testing, observability, and security practices. • Drive performance and availability across mission-critical systems including transaction processing, card management, and account services. • Serve as a culture leader—nurturing craftsmanship, ownership, and collaboration while maintaining the Taekus standard of excellence.