API Engineer II responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing RESTful APIs and backend services in TypeScript/JavaScript, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience in TypeScript and JavaScript
- Proven RESTful API design/development experience
- Strong understanding of Node.js/TypeScript asynchronous and event-driven runtime behavior
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience with at least one NoSQL datastore (DynamoDB or MongoDB)
- Experience integrating with external APIs
Benefits
- Base + target bonus compensation structure
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
- 401K (with employer match)
- Student Debt Retirement Plan
- Life insurance, long term disability, short term disability
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Sixteen (16) weeks paid primary caregiver leave
- Four (4) weeks paid parental leave
- Pet insurance
- Laptop (company issued) + WFH equipment reimbursement
- Career progression plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefit with company subsidy (For NYC-office based employees only)
- Involvement in Diversity and Inclusion programs
- Fun company events and volunteering opportunities