Staff Backend Software Engineer - API Platform

About Scribd:At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), our vision is to ignite human curiosity and foster a world enriched with stories and knowledge. We invite you to join our dynamic team as we democratize the sharing of ideas and information, and empower collective intelligence through our suite of innovative products: Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable…

At Scribd, Inc., we are dedicated to enhancing human understanding through our innovative products — Scribd®, Slideshare®, Everand™, and Fable — which empower billions around the world to transform access into knowledge, application, and expertise.Culture at Scribd, Inc.We foster a bold and authentic culture that encourages open debate and commitment, allowing our employees to embrace challenges and prioritize customer satisfaction. We believe that optimal performance arises from a balance of individual flexibility and meaningful community connection.Our Scribd Flex program enables team members to select work styles and locations that enhance their productivity, while also committing to intentional in-person interactions that promote collaboration and a vibrant company culture. All employees, regardless of their location, are required to attend occasional in-person meetings.What do we seek in our new hires? At Scribd, Inc., we value “GRIT.” This concept, reflecting the intersection of passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, forms the core of our expectations for every employee. It also serves as a practical framework for our work: achieving Goals, delivering Results, contributing Innovative ideas and solutions, and strengthening our Team through collaboration and positive attitudes.About the TeamOur Web Platform team is a vital part of the Developer Platform organization, driving our company-wide web modernization initiatives.Our mission is to empower product teams by providing a scalable and well-architected API foundation that supports modern web architectures. We collaborate across teams to minimize dependencies, enhance developer experience, and establish robust integration patterns between frontend and backend systems.With a high degree of autonomy and a long-term vision, the platform we develop will influence how teams design, deploy, and evolve our web products.About the RoleWe are actively seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Web API Platform to contribute to the establishment of a company-wide API platform that accelerates web modernization at Scribd.

About Us:At Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”), we are driven by a mission to ignite human curiosity. Join our dynamic team as we craft a universe filled with stories and knowledge, democratizing the flow of ideas and information while empowering collective expertise through our innovative products: Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable.This job posting announces an open and approved position within our organization.We foster a culture where our employees are encouraged to be authentic and bold; where we engage in constructive debate and commit to decisions as we navigate the twists and turns of our journey together. Every team member is empowered to take initiative, placing customer needs at the forefront of our priorities.We believe in a workplace that balances individual flexibility with community connectivity. Through our flexible work benefit, Scribd Flex, employees can collaborate with their managers to determine the work style that best meets their personal needs. A fundamental aspect of Scribd Flex is our commitment to intentional in-person moments that enhance collaboration, culture, and connection. Therefore, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd Inc. employees, regardless of their location.What do we seek in our new team members? We hire for “GRIT,” which embodies the intersection of passion and perseverance towards long-term objectives. At Scribd Inc., we are inspired by the potential this approach unlocks and encourage each employee to adopt a GRIT-ty mindset in their work. In practical terms, GRIT stands for the ability to set and achieve Goals, deliver Results within their role, contribute Innovative ideas and solutions, and positively impact the broader Team through collaboration and attitude.About the Web Platform TeamOur Web Platform team is responsible for developing the shared foundations that empower Scribd’s product teams to deliver exceptional web experiences efficiently. We concentrate on creating scalable frontend architecture, shared libraries and tools, and robust patterns that enhance velocity, reliability, and maintainability across our web ecosystem.A significant focus for our team is Web Modernization: transitioning legacy SPAs to a Next.js-powered Microfrontend architecture, facilitating quicker iterations, safer scaling, and long-term confidence in Scribd’s web product evolution.

Join Convex in Revolutionizing Application Development!At Convex, we are on a mission to revolutionize the way developers build applications by enabling them to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without the need for a backend team. Our innovative full-stack app platform is meticulously crafted with database, compute, and backend abstractions, allowing developers and LLMs to rapidly innovate while ensuring scalability and simplicity throughout the product lifecycle.Meet Our Team:Our team comprises talented engineers who have built and designed some of the world’s most extensive backends, handling exabytes of data and millions of transactions per second, while also delivering desktop and mobile software across billions of devices. We pride ourselves on our friendly, collaborative, and passionate culture, thriving in our San Francisco office.The Opportunity:As a key player in our backend platform, you will enhance our standout client API and developer experience. We have dedicated significant resources to perfecting our client libraries, development APIs, and sync protocol, ensuring that Convex is a delight for application developers. We are looking to grow our team to advance the next iteration of the Convex API and redefine the modern application stack.If you are an experienced TypeScript developer with a passion for elegant API design and recognize the importance of robust platforms in the age of AI development, we want to hear from you!Your Responsibilities:Design, develop, and maintain Convex’s client libraries, sync protocol, and query APIs.Stay updated with new frameworks and technologies within the app development landscape.Gain insights into effective abstractions that scale and integrate seamlessly within our stack to create libraries that are user-friendly and maintainable.Work autonomously to prioritize impactful projects while collaborating closely with the engineering team and CTO (hi! I'm James).Contribute to establishing best practices and design guidelines as our team and systems expand.Write engaging and innovative client library code.

Join SoFi as a Senior Web Platform Engineer and be at the forefront of building innovative web solutions that empower our users. You will work on enhancing and maintaining our web platform, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new features and optimize existing ones, using the latest technologies and best practices in web development.

As a vital player in the gaming community, Discord connects over 200 million users each month through gaming experiences. Our platform is a hub where gamers engage, communicate, and collaborate. With over 90% of our users gaming together for an astounding 1.5 billion hours monthly, we are at the forefront of enhancing the digital gaming landscape.The Web Platform team at Discord is dedicated to developing and maintaining the essential systems that drive our front-end development across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. We empower hundreds of engineers daily, streamline thousands of builds and deployments, and facilitate rapid feature delivery through our advanced tooling infrastructure. By creating and operating foundational JavaScript build systems—such as linters, bundlers, package managers, and CI/CD automation—we enable our internal developers to launch features quickly and securely while ensuring high performance and developer satisfaction. Additionally, our team manages the localization and translation systems that bring our apps and platforms to life across various languages.In your role as a Senior Software Engineer within this team, you will be instrumental in refining our build tooling, enhancing developer workflows, and optimizing infrastructure—impacting not just the productivity of every front-end engineer at Discord, but also enriching the experience for users across our platform.

Join our innovative team at Lambda as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in API development. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your extensive technical expertise to design, implement, and optimize robust APIs that enhance our software solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that meet our customers' needs.

The OpportunityAt Enigma, we are at a pivotal moment of growth, receiving enthusiastic feedback from our clients regarding the substantial value our product provides. This feedback drives our urgent need to effectively present the capabilities of our small business data as we expand our sales and marketing efforts.The RoleWe are seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic API and Data Delivery Team. In this position, you will be instrumental in designing, constructing, and maintaining essential systems for processing and delivering vast datasets, collaborating with both teammates and clients to address impactful, real-world challenges.What You’ll DoDevelop scalable, highly available, and high-throughput systems deployed in cloud environments.Tackle challenges involving containers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code (primarily using Docker, AWS, and Terraform).Exhibit a proactive attitude that embraces challenges, regardless of their size.Take pride in writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.Thrill in collaborating as part of a motivated and cohesive team.Identify and address problems that may go unnoticed by others.Be driven to create tangible impacts for our customers.Inspire your colleagues to excel while fostering a collaborative and supportive team culture.Manage responsibilities related to architecture, design decisions, hands-on implementation, team organization, and technical mentorship.What Makes This Role Exciting?Impact: Your technical expertise and decision-making will directly influence our customers and the success of our product, affecting critical choices at multi-billion dollar firms.Technical Challenge: Engage with cutting-edge technologies surrounding databases, information retrieval, distributed systems, microservices, elastic scaling, data pipelines, and more.Ownership: The API & Data Delivery team is addressing some of the world's most complex challenges. The ideal candidate is an engineer eager to expand their responsibilities and collaborate with the team to create significant technical and business impacts.

Who We ArePostman is the premier API platform utilized by over 45 million developers and 500,000 organizations globally, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Our mission is to empower developers and professionals worldwide to create an API-first environment by simplifying every stage of the API lifecycle and enhancing collaboration, thereby enabling users to build superior APIs more swiftly.Headquartered in San Francisco, we also maintain offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore—our city of origin. As a privately held company, we have secured investments from leading firms such as Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Discover more at postman.com or engage with us on X at @getpostman.P.S: We highly recommend exploring The "API-First World" graphic novel to gain insight into our broader vision at Postman.About the TeamThe Client Platform organization is dedicated to paving the way for building, testing, and deploying Postman’s web and desktop applications. We are responsible for frameworks, design systems, SDKs, build tools, and shared infrastructure that product engineers rely on daily. The UI Platform group is focused on developing reliable, accessible, and high-performance UI foundations that are used across Postman.The OpportunityAs a Senior Software Engineer on the Client Platform team, you will play a key role in shaping the front-end infrastructure that Postman depends on. This encompasses the design system and reusable components that enhance both web and desktop experiences. Your contributions will significantly impact how hundreds of engineers build, fostering consistency, performance, and an improved developer experience.This position involves hands-on work. You will create components, establish UI architecture, and collaborate with engineers and designers to transform concepts into scalable UI systems. In this role, you will advance the UX layer, enabling teams to deliver high-quality features without the need to reinvent core patterns.What You’ll DoEnhance front-end architecture, including component libraries, layout patterns, theming, and global UI behaviors.Develop specialized UI components as needed (e.g., editors, grids, structured data components) with a focus on performance and usability.Ensure components meet accessibility standards, keyboard interaction patterns, and internationalization/localization requirements.Assist product teams in embracing UI Platform components and patterns, offering guidance and identifying opportunities to simplify or expand the platform.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in API development to join our dynamic team at Anthropic. In this role, you will have the opportunity to leverage your expertise to design and implement cutting-edge APIs that will enhance our products and services.As a key member of our engineering team, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand customer needs and translate them into scalable and efficient solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring that our APIs are robust, secure, and user-friendly.

MidiHealth is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. This hybrid role is based in the SF Bay Area and centers on building and enhancing the software that drives MidiHealth’s healthcare technology platform. The work contributes directly to improving patient outcomes through technology. Key responsibilities Design and develop software solutions for the core platform Collaborate with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to deliver integrated features Support the reliability and scalability of the platform Location This position requires regular on-site work in the SF Bay Area as part of a hybrid schedule.

Aura is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer, Platform to join our innovative team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable software solutions that enhance our platform capabilities. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality software that meets the needs of our users.

Who Are We?Postman stands as the premier API platform globally, empowering over 45 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including an impressive 98% of Fortune 500 companies. Our mission is to assist developers and professionals worldwide in constructing an API-first ecosystem by simplifying every phase of the API lifecycle and enhancing collaboration—allowing users to create superior APIs at an accelerated pace.Headquartered in San Francisco, Postman has additional offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore, where our journey began. We are a privately held company backed by esteemed investors including Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Discover more at postman.com or connect with us on X via @getpostman.P.S: We highly recommend exploring The "API-First World" graphic novel to better grasp our overarching vision at Postman.About the TeamThe Ecosystem team is dedicated to delivering essential extensibility features within Postman that our Ecosystem partners can utilize to create engaging applications for our users.This team plays a critical role in Postman’s journey of feature expansion by ensuring that the product offers capabilities that can be safely and securely leveraged by third-party applications.Collaboration is key, as the team works closely with all of Postman’s product and platform teams.We are engaged in building a product from the ground up, working across frontend, backend, and middleware.What You’ll DoDevelop scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems that meet the needs of thousands of ecosystem developers building applications on Postman, serving hundreds of millions of users.Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to fully understand product requirements and develop ecosystem capabilities that enable developers to create the next wave of applications.Draft and review technical specifications, offering constructive feedback to fellow developers.Be accountable for features from inception to deployment, ensuring that a high-quality standard is consistently upheld.About YouYou hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or possess equivalent industry experience.You have proficiency in Java, NodeJS, ReactJS, or similar technologies.You bring 8+ years of experience in constructing backend or full-stack services.Your problem-solving and analytical skills are exceptional.You have experience in developing scalable distributed systems.

Join our innovative team at Unify as a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing our platform capabilities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions that meet our clients' needs.

About Our TeamJoin a dynamic group that is dedicated to delivering OpenAI’s cutting-edge technology to developers globally through our robust developer platform, the OpenAI API. As the foremost AI development platform, our API is utilized by millions of developers and leading enterprises worldwide, powering a majority of the AI applications you encounter daily. Our latest innovations include gpt-5, gpt-realtime, Responses API, Agents SDK, and much more.About the PositionWe are seeking a passionate Software Engineer who will take ownership of our API designs. Our API is integral to our product, and we approach its design and development with meticulous care and intent. Every endpoint, field name, and enum value is a crucial part of the product interface that we strive to perfect. We want engineers who not only excel at creating APIs but also appreciate the nuances of exceptional API design. In this pivotal role, you will significantly influence the future development of the OpenAI API through both design and implementation.Key Responsibilities:Design and create innovative products for our API, including extending existing endpoints, adding new ones, or reimagining our entire API suite.Take a lead role in our API Review process, collaborating with various teams to ensure our APIs meet the highest design standards.Work closely with the API team, Developer Experience team, and Go-To-Market (GTM) team to elevate our APIs to global excellence.You Will Excel In This Role If You:Have a keen eye for API design and recognize the difference between well-crafted and poorly constructed APIs.Thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can work independently with ambiguous goals and requirements.Enjoy building tools for fellow developers and value constructive feedback from discerning users.Are fundamentally an engineer but also willing to engage in product decision-making.View APIs as ladders that empower users.About OpenAIOpenAI is at the forefront of AI research and deployment, committed to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We continuously push the limits of AI capabilities while prioritizing safe and ethical deployment to maximize positive impact.

About AnthropicAt Anthropic, we are dedicated to developing advanced AI systems that are not only reliable and interpretable but also safe for our users and society at large. Our rapidly expanding team comprises passionate researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders all collaborating to create beneficial AI solutions.Role Overview:As a pivotal member of our UI Platform team, you will contribute to Claude.ai, Anthropic's flagship consumer product, which encompasses web, mobile, desktop, and browser extensions. Your role will revolve around building the core infrastructure, components, APIs, and tooling that enable our product teams to deliver high-quality features swiftly and reliably.Your contributions will include designing and deploying shared components and design-system abstractions, enhancing the backend-for-frontend (BFF) APIs, and optimizing the build, deployment, and observability systems that ensure Claude.ai functions seamlessly across all platforms. The impact of your work will significantly accelerate innovation across teams while maintaining stability in user experiences.If you are passionate about enhancing developer experience and want your engineering contributions to multiply the impact across various features, this role is tailor-made for you.

Join Our Innovative TeamAt OpenAI, our Applied team is at the forefront of making advanced technologies accessible and impactful. We have developed market-leading products such as ChatGPT, Sora, and the OpenAI API, which harness the power of models like GPT-5 and an expanding range of multimodal functionalities across text, image, audio, and video. Our team also oversees the robust infrastructure needed for large-scale inference, ensuring a seamless experience for users worldwide. As we continue to innovate, our influence in the tech landscape is on a significant upward trajectory.Our clients are transforming their businesses with our APIs, unlocking capabilities that were once thought to be beyond reach. ChatGPT and Sora are prime examples of the limitless possibilities we now offer in various content forms. With the growth of these capabilities, we remain committed to the responsible application of our technology, prioritizing thoughtful deployment over unchecked expansion.Within the Applied Engineering sector, our Financial Engineering team is dedicated to developing the frontend platforms and workflows that dictate how OpenAI’s products are priced, purchased, and managed at scale. We collaborate closely with Go-To-Market and Finance teams to distill complex commercial requirements into intuitive, reusable billing experiences. We invite a talented frontend engineer to join us in defining and enhancing these billing platforms, shaping the interfaces and components relied upon by our product teams as we adapt to evolving customer needs.Your Role and Responsibilities:Design and develop scalable, reusable UI components and patterns to address a diverse array of billing scenarios across our product suite.Collaborate closely with backend engineers to implement comprehensive billing capabilities encompassing subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and enterprise solutions.Create tools and interfaces that empower teams in Finance, Sales, Support, and GTM to efficiently manage and analyze billing data.Innovate AI-driven features for billing workflows and platform tools to automate repetitive tasks, generate insights, and enhance decision-making.Contribute to the definition of frontend architecture, standards, and patterns for a unified billing platform utilized across OpenAI.Work collaboratively with Product, Data, Finance, Go-To-Market, and Engineering teams to transform ambiguous requirements into clear, high-quality user interfaces.Ideal Candidate Profile:Proven software engineering experience, with a preference for expertise in payments, billing, or monetization.Strong proficiency in modern frontend technologies, frameworks, and best practices.Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder expectations.Passion for creating exceptional user experiences and a keen eye for detail.

At Ripple, we are pioneering a future where value is transferred with the same ease and speed as information. Our bold vision is already a reality, as we deliver innovative crypto solutions to financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers. We are committed to enhancing the global financial system, fostering economic equality, and expanding opportunities for individuals worldwide. Join us to unleash your potential and make a real-world impact in your career.If you're passionate about creating meaningful change and eager to explore remarkable career growth, we invite you to join our team and help us build real value.THE ROLE:As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing Ripple's production infrastructure and optimizing our release pipelines. This position merges the expertise of systems and software engineering to support the design and lifecycle of our hosted products. You will collaborate closely with product engineers to offer mentorship, automation, and the development of innovative platform features!KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Oversee the deployment and maintenance of Ripple's multi-region, multi-provider service platforms with a focus on security and resilience.Create automation, monitoring, and instrumentation tools to streamline operations and boost engineering productivity.Develop solutions for complex technical challenges, including PKI, secret management, geographic failover, data replication, availability, and platform resilience.Automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, leveraging data to minimize human intervention.Work alongside product engineering teams to ensure code is ready for production.Lead the adoption of DevOps and GitOps principles throughout the organization.

About SentryAt Sentry, we believe that poor software should no longer be the norm. Our mission is to empower developers to create high-quality software more efficiently, allowing them to reconnect with the joy of technology.With over $217 million in funding and a trusted community of more than 100,000 organizations—including industry leaders like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian—we are pioneering performance and error monitoring tools that enable teams to devote less time to bug fixing and more time to product development.Embracing a hybrid work culture, we prioritize collaboration by designating Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays as in-office days. If you are passionate about building impactful tools that enhance the digital experience, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of software monitoring.About the RoleAs we scale for the future, a robust platform is critical to our success. The Platform organization at Sentry oversees the essential components that drive our services—from cloud infrastructure and streaming systems to storage, deployment, and security. We are responsible for the foundational services that empower every product and engineering team at Sentry to innovate swiftly and with assurance.We are on the lookout for a dedicated and forward-thinking Senior Staff Software Engineer to spearhead this evolution. In this pivotal role, you will report directly to the VP of Engineering and collaborate with various teams across the organization to influence the trajectory of Sentry’s platform.Your ResponsibilitiesDesign and architect the future of Sentry by converting business objectives and product strategies into clear, scalable technical blueprints.Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align technical roadmaps with the company’s strategic goals.Lead cross-functional initiatives within the Platform organization—taking ownership from inception to delivery and driving impactful results.Foster engineering excellence by mentoring platform engineers, disseminating best practices, and establishing high standards for system design, scalability, and operational quality.Evaluate significant architectural proposals to ensure consistency, maintainability, and long-term technical health across the organization.What Makes This Role ExcitingYou enjoy designing and creating platforms that empower teams to operate more swiftly and securely.You thrive on tackling complex, multi-layered challenges across product, infrastructure, and organizational structures.You have a passion for engineering that fosters collaboration and innovation.