Member of Technical Staff, Backend Engineer, API
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RunwayArtificial Intelligence
The provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S.Full-TimeSenior
Salary240,000 - 290,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience building production APIs
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLTypeScriptRESTful APIs
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
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
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