Senior API Engineer, Gigs
€80-120k
Telecom as a Service
Job no longer available
Telecom as a Service
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
€80-120k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide voice & data plans for smartphones, wearables and IoT.
Role
Who you are
- You worked with successful public APIs. You are excited to bring a wealth of knowledge to Gigs and enjoy being hands-on in designing great APIs. You will own this product
- You enjoy thinking rigorously about API design and diving deep into the details to deliver a great developer experience. You enjoy thinking about how to create amazing developer experiences with systems, and services and write high-quality code
- You enjoy building a product from scratch. This means owning the design process and writing high-quality code. It also means that you enjoy taking technical decisions and leading a team to success
- You love learning technologies as you go. You are a highly skilled engineer excited by learning new languages or frameworks. You are familiar with the debates around terms like REST, SOAP, HATEOAS, RPC, etc
- You value elegant abstractions over complex business processes. You will work closely with business stakeholders to model powerful and yet easy-to-use API endpoints
What the job involves
- You will design and develop a truly developer-friendly public API from scratch. Spearheading our engineering team for APIs, you will build a core part of Gigs products in a spectacularly robust fashion
- You will define and document our API principles, best practices, and style guides. This is your opportunity to establish paradigms and completely steer the direction of product development
- You will work closely with business stakeholders to model powerful, yet easy-to-use API endpoints. You will be able to design and build it from scratch
- You will build and integrate APIs and services and work with our partners to launch new markets, connectivity methods, and capabilities
- You will be able to build a core backend API engineering team around you
Our take
Gigs is a telecommunication platform that helps businesses that want to provide connectivity to their customers without becoming fully-fledged connectivity providers.
As a Y Combinator W21 batch, Gigs distinguishes itself by offering phone & data plans through an easy-to-use API. The company provides phone & data plans through BT, Vodafone, T Mobile, Orange, Verizon, and hundreds of other networks. It has additionally launched an eSIM mobile service in partnership with Grover.
The company is backed by Gradient Ventures, Google, and Crane Venture Partners, as well as some of the investors behind Stripe, Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify and Plaid. Gigs' has been increasing its client base internationally and continues to do so through its growing number of partnerships and its planned European expansion.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Sep 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $93.2m
Company benefits
- 28 paid vacation days per year (PTO)
- Generous stock options: We want everybody to be a true owner in Gigs (tax-free until exercised)
- Free phone and data plan
- Flexible working hours: We use meetings when needed and not per default
- Get your perfect setup: Mac, Mechanical Keyboard, Plugins, IDE. We are flexible and cover whatever you need to do the best work of your life
- A workplace built for remote-first work: We are building Gigs as a remote-friendly company. Take, own and implement decisions to build Gigs from scratch. You can join us in Berlin, or work from wherever you like. If you are based in Berlin, you can work from our office, or from the comfort of your home
- Gigs Pads: Our collection of beautiful homes around the world, for when you need a work-cation getaway
- Gigs Republic: Our semi-annual sunny offsite, a time for us to all come together for great food, lots of laughter, and leisurely activities
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Hermann Frank
(Co-Founder)Previously Founder/CEO at Fashionism, Flagship and HyperMesh. Consultant at Forward Consulting for 1 year.
Dennis Bauer
(Co-Founder)Dennis previously co-founded HyperMesh. They were also Head of Business Development at Bonagora and was also Head of conichiwa for over 2 years.
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