Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Platform

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Requirements:

• Enjoy developing for a technical developer audience.
• Have 7+ years of experience shipping features and products, focusing on scalable backend systems.
• Possess 3+ years of experience in developing APIs for an external audience.
• Proficient in Node.js and TypeScript, capable of building scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB.
• Demonstrate strong debugging skills across services and stack levels.
• Thrive in tackling large technical problems collaboratively.
• Take ownership of projects and drive them to business impact.
• Exhibit a deep understanding of data design and modeling.
• Communicate trade-offs effectively to meet technical and business requirements.
• Feel comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate cross-functionally to plan and develop product capabilities allowing third-party developers to extend the platform's functionality.
• Bring deep expertise in API development at scale, enhancing team practices.
• Implement best practices in authentication and authorization.
• Solve complex technical challenges within a highly technical platform, supporting developers and customers worldwide.
• Engage in all engineering activities, including incident response, technical specifications, code review, and feature releases.
• Contribute to process improvements for planning, development, and deployment.
• Address intricate technical challenges within a collaborative, geographically distributed team.