Senior API Systems Engineer - Scalable Node.js & TypeScript

bookofthemonth; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

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.