Own the full API lifecycle from design and implementation to monitoring, optimization, and documentation for both public and internal APIs
Design and implement async workflows for task orchestration, content moderation, prompt enhancement, and post-processing pipelines
Optimize database queries and improve performance for a high-traffic Postgres database
Build rate limiting, fraud detection, and credit management systems
Implement comprehensive API security, rate limiting, authentication, and monitoring systems to ensure reliability at scale
Improve the public API developer experience with better documentation, SDKs, and tooling
Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of our codebases

Requirements

3+ years of industry experience building production APIs
Strong TypeScript experience
Experience owning systems end-to-end
Understanding of API design patterns, REST principles, and async workflows
Experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and query optimization
Experience architecting production-ready systems at scale using cloud primitives from AWS, GCP, or Azure
Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them
Humility and open mindedness

Benefits

Pay equity
Competitive market rates for salary
Open to candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

API lifecycle managementTypeScriptasync workflowsdatabase query optimizationPostgresAPI securityrate limitingfraud detectioncredit management systemsproduction-ready systems

Soft Skills

humilityopen mindednessrapid prototypingiteration