• You'll need:Strong professional backend engineering experience with real production ownership
• Solid grasp of APIs, backend architecture and database design
• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices or event-driven architecture
• Comfort making technical decisions and defending them
• Experience working somewhere where requirements shift fast.

If your current role has you maintaining a slice of something bigger with limited say, this will feel different. If you've been a founding or early engineer somewhere, or had genuine ownership at a start-up or scale-up, you'll recognise the shape of this straight away.

• You'll need:Strong professional backend engineering experience with real production ownership
• Solid grasp of APIs, backend architecture and database design
• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices or event-driven architecture
• Comfort making technical decisions and defending them
• Experience working somewhere where requirements shift fast.

If your current role has you maintaining a slice of something bigger with limited say, this will feel different. If you've been a founding or early engineer somewhere, or had genuine ownership at a start-up or scale-up, you'll recognise the shape of this straight away.