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PayNearMe · 4 hours ago

Senior API Engineer - Remote

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$185K/yr - $215K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

You’ll be the primary owner of our APIs, helping us optimize and extend them

Build out performance tests for the high-usage calls (we use K6)

Use the results to tune these calls to be as efficient as possible (reader nodes, caching, etc)

Tune the default behavior for new clients to return minimal results

Ensure that our logging and monitoring is sufficient to detect potential problems (we use Datadog)

We have taken the first step towards OAuth 2.0 for one client (using Kong)

We want to make OAuth 2.0 available to all clients, running incoming requests through Kong

All of our APIs should run through this path so that Kong can do as much auth and validation as possible

Own the OpenAPI specification for our APIs

We need to point ReadMe at a separate and firewalled deployment and install an authentication system for clients to use

With the experience gained above, start working on the next generation of APIs

How do we redesign them to be simple, modular and fast?

How do we design for 10x and beyond using horizontal scaling?

Qualification

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Ruby on RailsAPI DevelopmentJavaScriptOpenAPIPerformance TestingQuery OptimizationSoftware Performance OptimizationKongDatadogAWSGoTechnical Leadership

Required

Superb Ruby on Rails skills, with a minimum of 10 years of current Ruby on Rails experience

Skilled at coding in Javascript, used in our performance test harness

Experience and expertise building highly performant and high-throughput Ruby/Rails back-ends

Experience building APIs, working with OpenAPI, and preferably Kong as well

Familiarity with query optimization and web stack tuning (garbage collection, caching, throttling)

Experience writing well instrumented code that can be monitored (we use Datadog)

Understand the impacts of locking, network latency, batching, caching and I/O on software performance

A proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations

Ability to facilitate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls in a distributed team environment

Experience serving as a Tech-Lead

Preferred

Experience with Go is a plus, but not required

Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem

Benefits

Fast- paced and professional work culture

Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total

$50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill

$250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup

Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)

Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)

Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Paid parental bonding leave

Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement

401k plan

Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)

Volunteer Time Off

13 scheduled holidays

2x / year in-person team meet-ups (2-3 days, company paid)

Company

PayNearMe

PayNearMe provides a web and mobile-based cash payments platform designed to facilitate online purchases and bill payments.

Founded in 2009

Santa Clara, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://home.paynearme.com

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