Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

Responsibilities

• 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: infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, incident response
• 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 with tight product deadlines
• Humility and open mindedness