Senior Developer - API Services

Overview

The API Services team is responsible for engineering and delivering cutting‑edge services to aid in content delivery to end customers. Our services support over 500 news brands, and more than 1 billion requests a day.

• Design, develop, and deploy backend APIs in Golang that deliver content to our front‑end teams and ultimately to millions of readers.
• Automate everything, containerize applications with Docker, deploy and scale those containers using Kubernetes, configure clusters and alerts using Terraform.
• Leverage leading public cloud providers' tools and services to create efficient, performant, and modern application architectures.
• Discover new tools and techniques to optimize cost, deployment speed, developer effort, and resource usage.
• Review PRs and use them as an opportunity to mentor other developers on the team.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and plan for sprints with a two‑week cadence.
• Provide operational support for our applications including participation in the team's on‑call rotation.
• Help establish, improve, and advocate best practices around our application and infrastructure monitoring.

• Collaborate to design and implement well‑tested, performant applications with an emphasis on concurrency.
• Use and leverage Agile methodologies.
• Ship API solutions implementing Graph
  
  QL and REST at scale via a collection of services.
• Write scalable software using Golang (experience with Ruby, Node, Python or similar languages/environments is a plus).
• Automate deployment and scaling using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests.

• Experience as a self‑starter that thrives in a remote‑friendly environment.
• At least 2 years' experience creating and maintaining software platforms and deployments; we believe in Dev Ops – we run what we build.
• Experience developing APIs, SDKs, and CLI tooling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, test‑driven development, CI/CD, and version control.
• Experience building and enhancing configuration‑driven systems using tools such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Salt, or comparable technologies.

The annualized base salary for this role will range between $150,000 and $160,000. Variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and may be applicable based on the role.