Senior API Systems Engineer - Scalable Node.js & TypeScript

bookofthemonth

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 125,000 - 180,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Book of the Month in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for API Systems to architect technical solutions, deliver roadmap features, and improve code quality and performance.

You will own end-to-end feature development for high-traffic user features, collaborate with product and design, and mentor peers while ensuring scalable, reliable REST APIs and robust test suites.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of production-grade Node.js development experience.
  • Strong TypeScript expertise ensuring API contract integrity and data quality.
  • Experience designing and versioning RESTful APIs with backward-compatible contracts.
  • Hands-on SQL data modeling with MySQL or PostgreSQL and safe schema evolution.
  • Ability to build and maintain comprehensive test suites to gate production releases.
  • Familiarity with caching/streaming tech such as Redis, Kafka, and SQS for performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end feature creation for high-traffic user features.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to craft practical, cost-efficient solutions.
  • Create detailed technical specifications for peer review and execution.
  • Review peers' specs and mentor for scalable, well-designed solutions.
  • Write code and direct code generation to implement approved solutions.
  • Verify solutions across happy and unhappy paths and monitor post-release success.

Skills

Node.js
TypeScript
REST APIs
SQL
Testing
Code quality

Tools

Redis
Kafka
SQS

Job description

Book of the Month in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for API Systems to architect technical solutions, deliver roadmap features, and improve code quality and performance.

You will own end-to-end feature development for high-traffic user features, collaborate with product and design, and mentor peers while ensuring scalable, reliable REST APIs and robust test suites.

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