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About the role
Lead people management (hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews).
Manage 8-10 senior engineers team delivery according to business priorities, ensuring right team ambition according to capacity.
Champion team health: Catch problems early, don’t wait for retros.
Ensure team skill composition matches product direction.
Own delivery outcomes: PM defines what/why; EM owns how/when/who.
Accept work from PM, push back when specs aren’t ready.
Report delivery expectations, status and flags to business.
Balance features, experiments, tech debt, bug fixes.
Remove impediments: cross-team deps, infra blockers, unclear requirements.
Drive technical excellence: code review culture, testing, observability.
Maintain infrastructure reliability (650B+ req/month, 300K+ req/sec - uptime is existential).
Own day-to-day architecture decisions; escalate strategic ones to Head of PD.
Navigate tech debt decisions: when to pay down, when to live with it.
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