Lead API Architect, Fingerprint

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience designing high-scale systems in cloud environments on AWS
• Recent experience building and scaling API systems on AWS, processing at least 1 billion requests per month
• Hands-on experience in building distributed systems – not solely responsible for architecture, but also for writing code
• Production experience with golang, AWS stack, event processing systems (Kafka or the like)
• Excellent English –-- both written and verbal communication

Desirable

• Design, implement and support of a new API that will work alongside existing company products
• Making decisions on the architecture and implementation. There will be only a high-level description of a system that needs to be implemented. It will be up to you to choose techniques and tools, validate them with the team, and convert them into a working system
• Event-driven architecture, event storage, and search API with a flexible filtering feature
• Architectural design, implementation, and delivery of the product features, including the most critical ones
• Communicating time estimates, issues, and technological challenges in a collaborative setting
• Solve problems of relatively complex scope through general usage of standard programming concepts and principles, and application of own judgment