Technical Skills:

• Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints that serve financial data to internal product teams and external clients
• Build service integration layer between backend services and the data platform, ensuring reliable data flow and error handling

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Shape architectural decisions collaboratively for the API and service delivery infrastructure as a founding engineer on the team
• Balance competing requirements of accuracy, performance, and scalability while delivering reporting products on tight client deadlines

Organizational Knowledge:

• Collaborate closely with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs to ensure seamless integration between the data engine and API layer
• Partner with Product teams to design APIs that enable self-service access to financial data

Communication and Influence:

• Champion API design best practices and service reliability standards in partnership with teams across the engineering organization
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning and help build a supportive, collaborative engineering culture for the new team

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• 5-7+ years building backend systems: You have experience collaborating on designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale
• Service stewardship mindset: You've been responsible for services end-to-end in production environments and understand what it takes to build reliable, observable, maintainable systems
• API design experience: You're proficient in Go or Python with hands-on experience building RESTful APIs, and you understand how to design interfaces that balance flexibility with performance
• Data-intensive systems: You've built backend services that interact with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or similar) and understand query optimization, connection pooling, and data consistency patterns
• Cloud-native development: You have experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms (preferably GCP), including containerization, monitoring, and incident response

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• GraphQL experience: You've built GraphQL APIs and understand the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST for different use cases
• Financial domain knowledge: You've worked in fintech, banking, or similar environments where data accuracy and auditability are critical requirements
• Data platform collaboration: You've worked closely with data engineering teams and understand modern data stack patterns (data warehouses, orchestration, CDC, etc.)
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :

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