API Engineer

Engineering at Gigs

$205K — $225K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in designing APIs and backend services.
  • Proficient use of AI tools in software development.
  • Experience in building products from scratch and owning delivery.
  • Willingness to learn new technologies and tools on the job.
  • Understanding of the business impacts of engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own complex problems from start to finish with a talented team.
  • Develop innovative products for world-class connectivity.
  • Uphold high engineering standards and improve processes.
  • Design, build, and maintain APIs and services in various programming languages.
  • Ensure system reliability through observability and incident response.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and stock options.
  • Stipends for home office/work setup.
  • Learning and development budget.
  • Free phone and international data plan.
  • Flexible in-person and remote work arrangements.
Full Job Description
The Role
  • Own complex problems end-to-end, working with our talented team to design and build robust, scalable solutions.
  • Develop innovative products that empower our customers to bring world-class connectivity services to their users with ease.
  • Uphold our high engineering standards, improving tooling and processes where necessary.
  • Design, build and maintain best-in-class APIs and services. Contribute to our Ruby on Rails monolith and take an active part in breaking down our monolith towards a more distributed system. Be comfortable juggling multiple languages - we're currently using Ruby, Go, Typescript and some Elixir. Depending on your team you might get in touch with some or all of these languages. You don't need to have deep expertise in all of our languages, we will give you plenty of room to learn and grow with your team.
  • Maintain the reliability of our systems by building for observability and participating in incident response as needed.

You can find more about how we work on our engineering page.

Salary range for Senior Engineer: $205,000 - $225,000
(The final offer depends on your background, skills, and how you perform through the process. We're open to considering mid, senior and staff-level candidates, which may result in an adjustment to the scope and compensation)
What We Are Looking For
  • You have experience designing APIs and building backend services. You enjoy thinking about systems, and you care about the quality of the software you produce.
  • You use AI as a core part of how you work, not an occasional shortcut. That means prompting agents with context and intent, reviewing what they produce critically, and knowing when to push back. You can explain the code an agent wrote, catch when it oversteps the ask, and form your own opinion on whether the output is actually good. You're curious about how the tooling is evolving and actively working to get better at it.
  • You enjoy building products from scratch. You care about finding the right solution to customer needs, and you're comfortable taking ownership and delivering.
  • You love learning technologies as you go. You always want to find the right tool for the job, and don't only follow what you already know.
  • You care about more than just engineering. You need to see the business impacts of everything you do. You know how to make speed/quality trade-offs.

Work At Gigs

At Gigs, we value in-person collaboration. We believe the best ideas, decisions, and relationships are built when teams spend meaningful time together, and our culture is designed around that belief. We support flexibility where it makes sense. Some focused work can be done remotely, and not every role or week looks the same. You should expect regular time in one of ourhubs, as well as occasional travel for team workshops, customer meetings, and Gigs Republic, our bi-annual company off-site. Our offices are designed to feel like home-inspired workspaces, with plants, thoughtful tools, and small, tight-knit teams that make collaboration feel natural, energizing, and effective.
What We Offer

At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan

Want to learn more about our benefits, hubs, and what it's like to work at Gigs? Check out our Careers page.

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