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# API Engineer

- **Company:** Gigs, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $125,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, TypeScript, Web Services, Backend, Elixir, Golang
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p8bobhbsgf

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.


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