# Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

**Company:** [Runway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/runway)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $240k – $290k/yr
**Skills:** TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Rest, Python, PyTorch, SQS, Kinesis
**Posted:** 2022-04-29

> Builds and scales backend APIs handling millions of users, focusing on TypeScript services, async workflows, database optimization, and AWS infrastructure for AI platform reliability.

## Job Description

## 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

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