Mid/Senior Software Engineer - API Integration

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own development of high-impact features and improvements to our API integration platform, which powers our cashflow products.
• Integrate new consumer-permissioned data APIs into our platform.
• Improve observability around API integration and data ingestion for internal or customer needs.
• Develop internal tooling, frameworks, and unit testing to improve devex, velocity, and quality.
• Participate in standard engineering activities like technical design, code reviews, on-call support, documentation, and sprint ceremonies.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience integrating external APIs and leveraging related protocols (e.g., https, oauth, jwt, webhooks)
• Proficient in Javascript or Typescript
• Proficient with SQL; experienced with advanced queries, schema design, functions, indexes, partitioning)
• Experience building JS-based web systems (e.g., Express.js)
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, Kibana, or Datadog
• Ability to design sound, highly performant solutions in AWS; articulate design decisions and tradeoffs.
• Firm grasp of software testing methodologies and troubleshooting skills
• Curious, self-driven, and eager to learn

SAMPLE PROJECTS:

• Integrate new third-party APIs into our product. This includes data validation/monitoring, mapping, persistence, and job scheduling
• Introduce code patterns or build libraries that help reduce API integration time 
• Build a monitoring system that detects shifts in third-party API data, improving data quality observability
• Create dashboards that articulately describe past results to customers or internal stakeholders
• Reduce latency of API ingestion process to cut down customer-facing e2e latency

YOU SHOULD ESPECIALLY APPLY IF:

• You want to have a big impact on your next company
• You want to be part of a scale-up
• You normally go the extra mile to ensure excellent execution
• You're quick to take the lead when problems arise
• You're opinionated about software engineering practices and can articulate compelling reasons for those opinions