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The Staff Software Engineer role at Lattice aligns directly with three years of latency-engineering work I led at Shopify, and I would welcome the opportunity to bring that experience to your team.
At Shopify I owned the Shop Pay checkout latency budget across 240k merchant stores. The work I am most proud of was a server-side rendering rewrite that lifted global conversion 3.2% (approximately $180M in attributed gross merchandise value), executed with zero customer-facing downtime over a six-week cutover. Prior to Shopify, I led Stripe's PSD2 SCA compliance implementation — the work that made Stripe the first major payments processor to be SCA-compliant in the EU.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss the role in greater detail at your convenience.
Maya Chen