Job Description

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• 10+ years in backend/platform engineering with leadership in transaction-heavy platforms.

• Deep expertise in distributed systems: ordering, payments, reconciliation, data integrity.

• Hands-on mastery of Node.js/TypeScript in cloud-native and serverless-first architectures.

• Proven experience running systems at high scale and high reliability (millions of daily transactions).

• A "player-coach" mindset: comfortable diving into production issues, leading design sessions, and mentoring teams.

Desirable Experience

• Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, NestJS

• Cloud & Data: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS), PostgreSQL, Redis

• Event Streaming: Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis -- designing high-throughput, low-latency pipelines

• Architecture Patterns: Microservices, event-driven systems, CQRS, event sourcing, domain-driven design

• APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC with schema-first governance and strong versioning discipline

• Platform & Ops: k8s (EKS or equivalent), service mesh, distributed tracing, full observability stacks

• AI Readiness: Building real-time fraud detection signals, anomaly detection, recommendation feeds

• Domain Knowledge: High-scale commerce, payments, or financial transaction platforms

Requirements
Senior Manager | Platform Engineering & API Ecosystems
Why This Role Matters
At Foodhub, every order and payment flows through our Order & Transaction Platform. It's a high-throughput backbone moving millions of requests daily -- where reliability, speed, and financial accuracy cannot be compromised. We are continuously evolving this core into a cloud-native, event-driven, AI-ready platform that scales globally.
This role is about shaping that platform: part architect, part hands-on engineer, part mentor. You'll be building systems that define what "real-time commerce at scale" looks like.
What You'll Drive
Architecture & Platform Evolution
Design and scale event-driven microservices that power ordering, payments, reconciliation, and partner integrations.
Implement CQRS, event sourcing, and ledger-based models for auditability and financial correctness.
Build a modern API ecosystem -- REST, GraphQL, gRPC -- with schema governance and backward compatibility.
Create real-time data and event streams to power fraud detection, recommendations, and operational analytics.
Performance & Reliability at Scale
Ensure five-nines reliability for high-volume order and transaction systems.
Solve concurrency, partitioning, and eventual consistency challenges across distributed services.
Deploy fault-tolerance strategies -- circuit breakers, idempotency, back pressure handling -- to protect systems under extreme load.
Advance SRE practices with chaos engineering, observability-first design, and automated failover.
Leadership & Mentorship
Lead globally distributed teams of platform engineers.
Balance 50-60% IC work (coding, design reviews, prototyping) with strategic leadership.
Create a culture of ownership, resilience, and continuous learning.
Act as a technical mentor for engineers across the company, raising the bar in distributed system design.

Skills Required