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# Senior Software Engineer - Dev Platform

- **Company:** Payward, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Routing, OAuth, Open Source Technology, OpenID, Role-Based Access Control, System Software, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Caching, Backend, Kubernetes, Api Gateway
- **Published:** November 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pwo8cusjr1

## About the Role

* Solid experience as a backend or platform software engineer building and operating APIs and distributed services in production
 * Strong skills in a backend language such as Rust, Python or TypeScript, with a habit of writing well-tested, maintainable code
 * Working knowledge of how LLM APIs behave: authentication, streaming responses, token accounting, rate limits and provider failure modes
 * Experience with observability, CI/CD and containers, and comfort with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
 * Ability to design clean, well-documented APIs for internal customers and to weigh their feedback
 * Clear written and verbal communication, and the ownership to carry work from idea to production

Nice to Haves

 * Experience with API gateways, proxies or traffic management
 * Experience building LLM-powered systems, including routing, caching, evaluation or cost controls
 * Familiarity with authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, OIDC, RBAC)
 * Contributions to open-source infrastructure or developer-platform projects