Senior Backend/Frontend Tech Lead

An experienced software engineer seeking a hands-on senior software engineer / tech lead position, backend-leaning with significant frontend skills. Has extensive experience working in distributed teams and across companies from seed-stage startups to FAANG. Proficient in close interaction with product people, stakeholders, and users, demonstrating cross-functional and cross-team collaboration, improving communication, and coordinating work. Values autonomy and high impact, with a track record of building systems from idea to production launch and evolving large existing systems (frontend, backend, databases). Views AI coding tools positively as a replacement for labor, not judgment. Enjoys communicating, mentoring, and coordinating work, but prefers not to be a full-time people manager, aspiring to be like John Carmack or Rob Pike.