Platform API Engineer

HTG is hiring a Platform API Engineer (Ruby on Rails) on behalf of one of our clients to join their engineering team and help build scalable, reliable APIs that power their products and enable other teams to deliver great customer experiences.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced backend engineer with strong Ruby on Rails and API development experience. You’ll work closely with frontend, product, and engineering teams to expand platform capabilities, develop new APIs, improve existing backend services, and make systems easier to integrate with and build upon.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services using Ruby on Rails.
• Build new API capabilities to support frontend applications and evolving product requirements.
• Work with engineering and product teams to identify backend capabilities that need to be exposed through APIs.
• Design clean, consistent, and maintainable API contracts and interfaces.
• Work with relational databases, data models, and backend services to deliver reliable API functionality.
• Develop integrations with internal systems and third-party services.
• Write automated tests and maintain high standards for code quality and reliability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve API performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Create and maintain API documentation and development standards.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure APIs provide the functionality and data required to deliver customer-facing experiences.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing production APIs, particularly REST APIs and/or GraphQL.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture and API design principles.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience working closely with frontend engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of automated testing and software engineering best practices.
• Experience working with production systems and troubleshooting backend issues.
• Ability to take ownership of technical projects from planning through implementation and delivery.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with large or complex API platforms.
• Experience with API authentication and authorization, such as OAuth or JWT.
• Experience with background processing or event-driven architectures.
• Experience with technologies such as Redis, Kafka, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch, or similar tools.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with API documentation and developer tooling.
• Experience in platform engineering or building systems consumed by multiple engineering teams.

Pay: $60.00-$65.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Ottawa, ON

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