Responsibilities:

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<li>Take deep architectural ownership of critical components within the Rewards platform, driving long-term strategy, ensuring system resilience, and setting high standards for API design, observability, security, and compliance while actively mitigating architectural debt and risks.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Design and deploy real-time recommendation systems to deliver personalised user experiences based on individual card behaviour, transaction patterns, and engagement metrics.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Scale CRED's gaming systems that drive user participation, building reliable, low-latency infrastructure capable of handling large concurrent user interactions during reward events and campaigns.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Refactor and stabilise the fragmented store architecture by consolidating 22+ microservices into a more maintainable, resilient, and efficient system, reducing operational complexity and improving developer productivity.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Actively collaborate with Product and Business stakeholders to define and refine ambiguous problem statements, contribute to product strategy, and translate complex challenges into robust, scalable technical roadmaps.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Champion and drive the adoption of innovative technologies, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices that align with CRED's long-term vision and business objectives.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Contribute significantly to engineering-wide excellence by actively participating in hiring top talent, mentoring engineers across teams, and driving initiatives to improve engineering processes, productivity, and cost-effectiveness.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Operate as a horizontal enabler, working across multiple functions since Rewards interacts deeply with Payments, Engagement, Storefront, and Analytics teams to ensure seamless integration and cross-functional success.</li>
</ul>

Requirements:

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<li>4-6 years of experience in product engineering, system design, and backend architecture.</li>
</ul>

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<li>A strong bias for execution speed and shipping high-quality features in fast-paced environments.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Experience making technical trade-offs and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align on solutions.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Hands-on expertise with Java, Go, or similar backend languages, and experience with databases like DynamoDB, RDS, or Aerospike.</li>
</ul>

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<li>A tech generalist mindset comfortable working across systems with breadth more than niche depth.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Proven ability to mentor engineers, conduct deep code reviews, and raise the team's technical bar.</li>
</ul>

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<li>A passion for building consumer-facing platforms and an eye for user-centric thinking.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Thrive in agile environments, are a self-starter, and bring energy and ownership to your work. </li>
</ul>

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