Software Engineer, API Platform

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain API endpoints, middleware, and platform services in Go.
• Build and evolve the API gateway layer for routing, authentication, rate limiting, and request/response shaping.
• Write and maintain OpenAPI and gRPC API contracts and communicate breaking changes to internal consumers.
• Contribute to monitoring, alerting, SLA tracking, and incident response for platform APIs.
• Write clear, reviewable code with tests covering happy paths and failure modes.
• Collaborate with Data Ingestion, Integrations Platform, and Client Platform teams that consume the APIs.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building production backend services.
• Proficiency in Go or strong motivation to ramp up quickly; Go is the primary team language.
• Understanding of REST API design principles and semantics; gRPC experience is a plus.
• Ability to reason about latency, error rates, retry behavior, circuit breaking, and service reliability.
• Comfort working in Kubernetes-based environments, including deploying, debugging, and understanding service interactions.
• Experience with containerized development workflows using Docker.
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, API keys, and JWT authentication patterns.
• Clear written communication, meaningful tests, early communication of blockers, and comfort working asynchronously across a distributed team.
• Preferred: experience with Kong, Envoy, NGINX, or cloud-native API gateways; Istio or Linkerd service meshes; cybersecurity APIs; and gRPC or protobuf-defined service contracts.

Benefits

• Fully remote work, with up to 5% travel required; hybrid arrangements and some Chicago office requirements may apply depending on role and location.
• Stock-option equity package for full-time roles.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture with career development opportunities.