Member of Technical Staff Backend Engineer API

You will own APIs from design through monitoring and documentation. You will build asynchronous workflows, improve database performance, implement security and billing-related systems, strengthen reliability, and improve developer documentation, SDKs, and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own public and internal APIs through design, implementation, monitoring, optimization, and documentation
• Design and implement asynchronous workflows
• Optimize Postgres queries and database performance
• Build rate limiting, fraud detection, and credit management systems
• Implement API security, authentication, monitoring, and reliability systems
• Improve public API documentation, SDKs, and tooling
• Improve codebase performance, reliability, and quality

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building production APIs
• Strong TypeScript experience
• Experience owning infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, and incident response
• Knowledge of API design patterns, REST principles, and asynchronous workflows
• Experience with relational databases and query optimization
• Experience designing production systems using AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud primitives
• Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate