Foundational knowledge of SAAS applications: Exposure to web applications and a basic understanding of backend operations. Familiarity with handling moderate API traffic and interest in learning how to scale systems to handle larger volumes.
Basic understanding of HTTP and related protocols: Familiar with HTTP, headers, and basic concepts of proxies and cookies.
Interest in working with data: Enthusiasm for learning how to fetch, parse, and structure data to provide value to customers.
Familiarity with Node.js and TypeScript: Hands-on experience with Node.js and a basic understanding of TypeScript.
Product-oriented mindset: A focus on learning to build features that directly benefit customers.
Openness to remote work: Experience working remotely or readiness to work in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for helping to build, maintain and improve our ability to fetch and transform data for our customers, which is vital to our current and future service offerings.
Responsible for helping to maintain and further develop a large transactional SaaS API and related components that handle tens of thousands of requests every second.
As the role progresses, responsibilities will include helping to build out other new service offerings.