API Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the design and execution of high-scale backend systems and APIs that drive DistroKid’s primary platform.

• Architect and enhance distributed systems on AWS to ensure high throughput, reliability, and performance.

• Collaborate across backend, infrastructure, and DevOps, from API design to deployment and system operations.

• Design and integrate enterprise-level systems and external platforms to support high-scale workflows.

• Lead technical design decisions regarding data models, service boundaries, scaling strategies, and failure management.

• Write production-level code while actively participating in building and enhancing systems.

• Enhance system observability, reliability, and performance at scale.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to convert business requirements into effective technical solutions.

• Work on high-volume data ingestion, global distribution, and complex financial processes.

• Shape scalable architecture and manage systems that impact millions of creators globally.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in building and scaling backend systems in production settings.

• Strong, recent hands-on coding skills.

• Extensive experience with AWS, encompassing compute, storage, networking, and scaling.

• Proven experience in designing and managing high-scale distributed systems.

• Significant expertise in API design and system architecture in complex environments.

• Experience with both infrastructure and application layers, including DevOps, deployment, and reliability.

• Familiarity with enterprise integration platforms like AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong, or similar, or experience in creating and managing large-scale integration layers.

• Capability to oversee systems from architecture to implementation and production operation.

• Proficiency in navigating ambiguity and making essential technical decisions.

• Professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.

• Must not require a visa, work permit, or extension sponsorship in any country.

🏝️ Benefits

• Retirement plans (401k, SIPP, RRSP, etc.).

• Health insurance.

• Generous paid time off.

• Parental leave.

• Home office allowance.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Paid and discounted subscriptions.

• Regular engagement activities.

• Fully remote company.

• Employee-first culture.