Senior Platform Engineer

Technical Leadership (0 * 1)

• Architect, design, and deliver the core backend systems for client's data valuation marketplace.
• Build foundational services including: user management, marketplace transactions, workflow engines, pricing/valuation services, and data APIs.
• Own system design decisions and ensure long-term scalability, security, and performance.

Hands-On Engineering

• Write, review, and optimize code using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build microservices, backend APIs, and integration pipelines using PostgreSQL, AWS services, and modern serverless patterns.
• Lead full-stack development with light UI support where needed.

Marketplace Engineering

• Design and implement marketplace capabilities (shopping cart workflows, transactions, payment flows, listings, and user interactions).
• Build and refine marketplace logic, search, metadata, and pricing models.

Team Leadership

• Collaborate with engineering teams in Taiwan (daily syncs between 5-7 PM PT).
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Work closely with product, design, and leadership to convert business needs into technical execution.

Execution & Delivery

• Build quickly while keeping long-term architecture in mind.
• Establish engineering processes, code reviews, deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring.
• Ensure high-quality releases with short turnaround cycles.

• Strong ownership
• Ability to deliver quickly in a startup environment
• Experience leading engineering where nothing exists yet
• Ability to define architecture, standards, and processes
• Comfort leading distributed teams (US + Taiwan)
• Hands-on coding + architectural leadership

This is a critical hire. Strong performance will result in full-time conversion., * 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and RESTful API design.
• Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudFormation/CDK or Terraform).
• Experience building marketplaces or commerce platforms (critical requirement).
• Experience building backend systems from scratch (0*1 product development).
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices, security, and system scaling.

Bonus

• Experience with data platforms, data economy, or data valuation systems.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.