Runway

Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API

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over 4 years ago
Remote, WorldwideMid Level

Base Salary

$240k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, implementation, monitoring, optimization, and documentation of public and internal APIs.
  • Design and implement asynchronous workflows for task orchestration, content moderation, prompt enhancement, and post-processing.
  • Optimize queries and performance for a high-traffic Postgres database.
  • Build rate limiting, fraud detection, credit management, authentication, and API security systems.
  • Improve public API developer experience through documentation, SDKs, and tooling.
  • Improve the performance, reliability, and code quality of the codebases.
  • Own systems end-to-end, including infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, and incident response.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of industry experience building production APIs.
  • Strong TypeScript experience.
  • Experience owning production systems end-to-end, including infrastructure, monitoring, logging, metrics, and incident response.
  • Understanding of API design patterns, REST principles, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres, and query optimization.
  • Experience architecting production-ready systems at scale using AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud primitives.
  • Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate under tight product deadlines.
  • Humility and open-mindedness.
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