My dream position: - Business impact: I'd still love to change the world and save lives but I'll be content enough if our work is client-facing, and directly makes clients' lives / jobs easier. - Corporate structure: a result-driven company that welcomes innovation. - Technical mindset: no top-down but bottom-up tech design. Client-oriented design. Revenue-oriented, it should matter from day 0. No abstraction is better than bad abstraction. Let free patterns emerge from organic growth. - Technical landscape: data-intensive systems that can be relied upon, with strong business-relevant needs for performance, reliability, durability, and resilience. - Team dynamics: engineers have and share areas of responsibility. No echo chamber or ivory-tower architect. We should all be collectively accountable for systems architecture.