Rapid is a team of creators delivering the next-generation API platform built for the modern developer. Our users range from independent developers to the largest companies in the world. We work hard to make it easy for developers to build, use, and share APIs faster while providing enterprise-wide visibility and governance. As a result, entrepreneurs and enterprises can concentrate on creating value and business outcomes.

How do we make this happen? Rapid is the creator of RapidAPI Hub, the world’s largest API hub, where more than 4 million developers discover, evaluate and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from leading companies like Twilio, Microsoft and Google and more. Rapid also offers RapidAPI Studio, which provides developers with a single, connected experience to design, develop, test, monitor and publish their APIs. For enterprise organizations, Rapid offers RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a private, customizable version of the public hub that enables the company’s developers, customers, and partners to find, manage, and connect to hundreds of internal APIs, as well as external API subscriptions.

We operate at scale when the opportunity is even greater. We offer you the opportunity to make a difference and empower developers to build modern software through API innovation while doing the most critical work of your career.

We have a high-performance Python backend that is dedicated to storing user documents (API projects) in a way that supports versioning, branches, and update diffing. This backend is built on top of libgit2 (the C library that powers Git) and uses Cython bindings. You’ll own parts of this complex infrastructure and will work closely with the backend engineers and architects.

You Will

Work and own parts of our high-performance Git-based document storage backend
Work on improving the performance and reliability
Integrate the backend with new micro-services to leverage it for various projects in the company (the Git-based backend will be a platform for other applications to run on)

You Have

Have a strong technical background in building Python backend applications with more than 5 years of experience.
Knowledge of various Python backend frameworks (e.g. Django, Tornado, Flask)
Experience with low-level programming experience (C, C++)Desire to write clean, maintainable, testable code
A deep understanding and experience with parallel processing/concurrent programming
Autonomous, learner, builder, creator, achiever... You know how to get things done!
Collaborative and how to work in a team to achieve our goals as one team.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing and high-scale startup company distributed across the US, Europe, and Israel. You'll be taking our product to the next level within a high-talent-density team and out-of-the-box thinking. Having raised $150 million in a Series D investment round in 2022; you’ll be working with a team that is scaling globally, fast.

If this sounds like you, click apply below! We’d love to hear from you.

Senior Backend Engineer

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