Backend Engineer

• Develop, enhance, test, debug, and support software solutions for GTM commercial business applications throughout the software development lifecycle
• Partner with business users to understand functional and data requirements, assess existing processes, and recommend technology solutions
• Lead the design, development, implementation, and testing of moderately complex software solutions
• Manage increasingly challenging technical assignments
• Identify opportunities to improve application performance, reliability, and functionality
• Drive resolution of technical issues with guidance from senior team members as needed
• Collaborate with developers, quality assurance analysts, business partners, and cross-functional teams
• Align solution designs, clarify requirements, prevent software defects, and support successful implementation
• Provide technical guidance to new team members on development environments, standards, operational processes, application functionality, and component architecture
• Align development activities and technology solutions with business needs and expected outcomes

Junior Java Developer

• Design and develop enterprise applications using Java and Angular
• Develop new features and enhancements using object-oriented programming, design concepts, and Agile (Scrum) methodologies
• Translate business requirements into well-architected technical solutions with stakeholders, product owners, management, and subject matter experts
• Participate in application development, testing, rollout, and support lifecycles
• Measure, analyze, and optimize custom applications for performance and throughput
• Ensure quality through unit and regression testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and code reviews
• Use Agile project management tools such as Jira
• Coordinate with multiple Agile/Scrum teams to achieve on-time deliveries
• Communicate designs and plans to business partners verbally and in writing
• Learn new technologies and applications to support the full suite of systems

Java Engineer

• Design, develop and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Python
• Build scalable solutions for ingesting, processing and transforming large datasets
• Work with Microsoft Azure, including containerized workloads, batch processing, PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures
• Contribute to cloud-native architecture, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
• Work with Databricks and modern data processing approaches
• Collaborate with engineers on system design, data modelling and platform improvements
• Improve software quality through code reviews, automated testing and mentoring less experienced developers
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, accelerate problem solving and support coding, testing and technical analysis
• Build and evolve a proprietary data platform that identifies vulnerabilities and proactively reduces cyber risk
• Develop scalable backend services, high-performance APIs and event-driven data processing for a cybersecurity risk platform

Senior Python Engineer

• Handle end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites
• Ensure complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets
• Use tools and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution
• Extract data reliably from dynamic and interactive web sources, including JavaScript-rendered content
• Adapt scraping approaches to changing site behavior
• Enforce data quality through validation checks, cross-source consistency controls, formatting specifications, and systematic verification
• Scale scraping operations for large datasets using efficient batching or parallelization
• Monitor failures and maintain stability against minor site structure changes

Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer, Freelance

• Design, develop, install, test, and document application software, including server, client, and web components
• Design, document, and deliver technical architecture solution elements
• Coordinate between application architects and developers to ensure accurate design requirements and desired client ROI
• Define and develop project requirements, functional specifications, and detailed application solution designs for clients
• Develop technical documentation and test plans to support integration and deployment
• Work closely with software developers to advance goals and objectives for Gainwell and its clients
• Support clients in delivering better health and human services outcomes

Application Developer, C#, .Net, Razor Pages

• Handle end-to-end data extraction workflows across complex websites
• Ensure complete coverage, accuracy, and reliable delivery of structured datasets
• Use tools and custom workflows to accelerate data collection, validation, and task execution
• Extract data from dynamic and interactive web sources, including JavaScript-rendered content
• Adapt scraping approaches to changing site behavior and structures
• Enforce data quality through validation checks, cross-source consistency controls, formatting compliance, and systematic verification
• Scale scraping operations for large datasets using efficient batching or parallelization
• Monitor failures and maintain stability against minor site structure changes
• Apply tools such as Apify, OpenRouter, and other technologies to web extraction and processing

Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer – Freelance

• Build and run the trade and partnership outbound engine
• Define segments, pull and enrich lists, verify and score contacts, write and track sequences, and determine when outreach should be manual
• Arm the field team for sampling, shop visits, and trade shows with target lists, routes, one-pagers, and post-visit follow-up sequences
• Work alongside the field team to improve each campaign cycle
• Own search and content, lifecycle email and SMS, subscription retention, and referral programs
• Manage win-back, dunning recovery, pause-instead-of-cancel, and referral reconciliation programs
• Produce in-house creative with AI tools while following the brand's existing visual system
• Decide when to generate creative, composite real product photography, or involve a human
• Automate recurring manual work such as enrichment scripts, list hygiene, report pulls, campaign QA, and content pipelines
• Own first-party measurement across order and subscription data, cohort retention, referral attribution, and search visibility
• Identify inaccurate metrics before they affect decision-making
• Report directly to the two founders at manager level with no direct reports
• Build campaign machinery and automation for a regulated nicotine-product DTC business
• Participate in the interview exercise by producing a scored, enriched contact list, a three-touch sequence, and the script or flow generating it

GTM Engineer – Go-to-market

• Define and lead the long-term technical architecture of OleOle
• Lead backend architecture and infrastructure strategy using Rust-based systems
• Help build scalable systems supporting feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure
• Oversee engineering direction across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product systems
• Partner with leadership on product and company strategy
• Establish engineering culture, hiring standards, and technical execution processes
• Work directly with engineers on architecture reviews, tradeoffs, and implementation decisions
• Help design future financial infrastructure including rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems
• Support AI-powered systems including translation, recommendation, search, and football history infrastructure
• Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security across all systems
• Build and ship the football-focused social network and super app alongside the engineering team
• Potentially evolve into a co-founder-level position

CTO – Startup Experience, Rust

• Provide principal-level architecture leadership for GXO's Google Cloud environment
• Design and evolve enterprise Google Cloud foundations, including folder and project hierarchy, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, IAP, Workload Identity Federation, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS/CMEK, and Cloud Logging and Monitoring
• Lead architecture for GKE, including networking, ingress/egress, autoscaling, security, observability, production operations, and deployment standards
• Establish platform engineering standards through Terraform modules, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps controls, policy-as-code, and paved-road developer experiences
• Develop and maintain enterprise reference architectures, ADRs, technical standards, and cloud design patterns
• Partner with Information Security on zero-trust architecture, identity federation, least privilege access, encryption, secrets management, audit logging, and secure-by-default operations
• Define enterprise observability and FinOps standards, including cost attribution, budgeting, SLOs, tracing, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Lead Google Cloud architecture for GXO's Enterprise AI Platform, including Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, LiteLLM, Agent Gateway, MCP, Agent Registry, ADK, and governed Snowflake integrations
• Partner with Data Engineering, Security, and Product Architecture on secure, scalable, model-agnostic AI inference, agent runtimes, identity passthrough, tool execution, and end-to-end traceability
• Contribute to future AI platform capabilities, including model tiering and open-source model serving on GKE
• Support additional enterprise workloads including analytics, application modernization, integration, and data platforms
• Evaluate emerging Google Cloud technologies and strategic partner offerings
• Conduct architecture reviews, design governance, technical mentorship, and executive-level technology recommendations
• Collaborate with enterprise, infrastructure, security, and data architects to establish consistent cloud architecture standards
• Provide hands-on technical leadership by writing Terraform, reviewing IAM policies, troubleshooting GKE networking, and partnering with engineering teams

Principal Cloud AI Platform Architect

• Drive delivery of large backend features end-to-end
• Break large projects into manageable plans, estimate work, and raise risks early
• Lead technical design for complex features and evaluate performance, maintainability, and cost trade-offs
• Document technical decisions and design for extensibility
• Own a significant product area or full service, including reliability, performance, and evolution
• Build and operate Python services, APIs, and MongoDB data models
• Deploy and operate systems on Kubernetes across GCP and Azure
• Debug and resolve medium-to-large production issues
• Identify root causes and drive response and recovery
• Drive monitoring, observability, and performance health
• Review code and technical designs with constructive feedback
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Partner with product on medium-to-large features and help shape product decisions
• Write technical documents and communicate complex topics to non-technical stakeholders
• Proactively unblock team members and make pragmatic speed-versus-quality trade-offs
• Help shape team culture and engineering practices
• Work with an AI-enabled development workflow and help build supporting harnesses

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