Backend REST API Developer

Role overview

This remote backend engineering role centers on designing, implementing, and improving REST APIs for a cloud infrastructure and DevOps platform. The developer will help create well-documented endpoints and software development kits used by applications and developers worldwide, while contributing to an API-first product that must balance performance, security, usability, and maintainability. The position offers meaningful influence over API architecture and technical direction.

Responsibilities

- Deliver improvements to API endpoints, SDKs, libraries, and integration providers. - Design and implement robust, intuitive REST APIs for infrastructure, deployment, and automation workflows. - Recommend and advocate for improvements to API usability, reliability, and maintainability. - Manage the REST API technical backlog and identify architectural or technology improvements. - Integrate the product with third-party cloud application and infrastructure services. - Contribute across both open-source and closed-source repositories. - Participate in a design-first engineering process and help shape solutions from concept through production.

Requirements

- Strong practical experience developing REST APIs. - Ability to make and explain decisions about software architecture and API design. - Interest in developer experience, DevOps, site reliability engineering, infrastructure as code, GitOps, and automation. - Proactive working style with a willingness to own initiatives and influence technical direction. - Ability to collaborate in a helpful, distributed engineering environment.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote position with either full-time or part-time availability. - Opportunity to work across a broad technical ecosystem that includes cloud providers, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, and shell scripting. - Design-first culture with opportunities to move between roles, technologies, and engineering challenges.