Mission. Own the platform end to end through the scale-up: what the system is and how it runs. You decide how monoliths becomes an orchestration core with clear domain boundaries, and you decide how that core runs on AWS across three availability zones with zero-downtime deploys. You are accountable for availability: the on-call rotation, an SLO per payment flow, incident command and the escalation path for the 24/7 Mission Control desk. This is a staff-level player-coach role: a third of your week is design documents, prototypes and the hardest reviews; a third is building the runtime with your team; a third is leading.

Reports to the CEO, as a peer of the Head of Engineering and the CISO. Leads the SREs, the infrastructure engineer and the Mission Control lead; the domain owners answer to you for design decisions.

What you will own: architecture
• The target architecture and its sequence: the orchestration core out of the monolith, an event backbone with outbox and idempotency, data ownership per domain, the second region.
• The design review gate:



a one-page design before anything touches money movement, customer data or capacity, with decision records as the system of record.
• Standards: API design, versioning, pagination and rate limits, webhook contracts, correlation ids, security by design together with the CISO.
• Integration architecture: bank connections, routing and failover, reconciliation and settlement flows, real-time payment rails.

What you will own: platform
• Runtime on ECS: task sizing, CPU and memory limits, gunicorn and Celery topology, health checks, graceful shutdown, rolling or blue-green deploys.
• Data tier: RDS to Aurora with near-zero downtime, RDS Proxy and IAM authentication, read replicas, backups, point-in-time recovery, cross-region replication. Redis to Valkey on ElastiCache. SQS and dead-letter queue hygiene, Kinesis capacity, Lambda concurrency controls.
• Edge and network: ALB and NLB, WAF in block mode, per-merchant rate lim

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