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Manage Technical Debt

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Problem

How do you manage technical debt while maintaining high development velocity?

Please describe a specific past example, including how you identified and prioritized the debt, communicated the trade-offs, and protected delivery commitments. Explain what actions you took, how you balanced immediate product needs against long-term engineering health, and what happened as a result. We are looking for evidence of practical judgment, ownership, collaboration, and the ability to make technical debt visible without using it as a reason to slow delivery.