Position Details

Salary $4K – $4K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years At least five years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will build reliable, secure, and performant APIs that apply Kensho’s AI capabilities to customer workflows. You will collaborate across Product, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Design while designing API specifications and system architectures, and improving quality through testing, instrumentation, prototyping, and code reviews.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain, and improve software
Develop reliable, secure, and performant customer-facing RESTful APIs
Work with stakeholders on system architectures, API specifications, and complexity estimates
Test assumptions through instrumentation and prototyping
Promote ongoing technical development through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship

Technical Overview

The technical scope centers on backend API development, including design/develop/test/document/deploy/maintain, plus creating system architectures and API specifications. The role emphasizes RESTful API development, instrumentation and prototyping for validating assumptions, and continuous improvement via code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior backend engineer with 5+ years of experience building customer-facing APIs in a team environment. They have strong RESTful API development experience, and are comfortable designing API specifications and system architectures, using instrumentation and prototyping, and improving quality through code reviews and mentorship.

Must-Have Skills

At least five years of direct experience developing customer-facing APIs within a teamExperience developing RESTful APIs using a variety of toolsDesigndeveloptestdocumentdeploymaintainand improve software

Tools & Platforms

code reviews

Required Skills

customer-facing APIsRESTful APIsAPI specificationssystem architecturesinstrumentationprototypingcode reviewsdocumentationdeploymentsoftware maintenancesecure and performant APIscomplexity estimatesmentorshipknowledge sharingsoftware designsoftware developmenttesting

Hard Skills

customer-facing APIsRESTful APIssoftware designsoftware developmenttestingdocumentationdeploymentsoftware maintenanceAPI specificationssystem architecturesinstrumentationprototypingcode reviewsmentorshipsecure and performant APIscomplexity estimatesdeveloping APIs using a variety of tools

Soft Skills

proactive communicationefficient communicationinclusive communicationcross-functional collaborationmentorshipknowledge sharingcollaboration with geographically-distributed colleaguesthoughtful and deliberate technologist

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs that deliver Kensho AI capabilities to customer workflows

Role Subtype Backend Engineer

Keywords for Your Resume

Senior Backend Software EngineerBackend Engineercustomer-facing APIsRESTful APIsAPI specificationssystem architecturescomplexity estimatesdesigndeveloptestdocumentdeploymaintainand improve softwareinstrumentationprototypingcode reviewsknowledge sharingmentorshipreliablesecureperformant APIsapplications

Deal Breakers

At least five years of direct experience developing customer-facing APIs within a team, Experience developing RESTful APIs using a variety of tools

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