Software Developer, API

About Spokeo

Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.

Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets, research criminal investigation subjects, and more.

Founded in 2006, we have grown to a remote-first company of nearly 200 dedicated employees with an average tenure of 4.5 years. Find out why we were named a “Best Company” for 2023 by Comparably for Women, Compensation, Happiest Employees, Company Perks & Benefits, and Work-Life Balance, as well as “Best CEO” for co-founder Harrison Tang.

About this Opportunity

As an API developer, you will be a core member of one of several cross-functional teams building software in an agile environment. As practitioners of Scrum, we empower teams to set and achieve their sprint goals while continually improving the team dynamic from sprint to sprint. You will work with our core data and various 3rd-party integrations for the consumer, enterprise, partner, and affiliate marketplaces. You will work closely with co-founders on improving our critical infrastructures to drive business growth. Lastly, we will give you the opportunity to address critical issues in big data, e-commerce services, and information security. Let’s learn and win together!

What you’ll do:

• 25% - Write clean and performant code for our backend data service RESTful APIs to ensure data flows from our 3rd party vendors.
• 30% - Support data access needs for multiple databases to support our critical infrastructure.
• 25% - Collaborate with product owners, QA, and DevOps across Scrum teams to deliver #Data4Good to our users.
• 20% - Create and maintain API usage documentation and flow diagrams.

The skills you'll have:

• Required - A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• Required - A strong background in search-related products or features using either OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Lucene, or Solr.
• Required - 4+ years of development experience in web applications and/or backend APIs
• Required - 2+ years using SQL and NoSQL technologies
• Required - Experience implementing and troubleshooting high-usage, high-throughput systems
• Required - Experience optimizing application performance and database queries.
• Required - Experience developing with cloud services, AWS recommended.
• Preferred - A good understanding of data integration and ETL processes, with experience working with APIs and data ingestion.
• Preferred - Familiarity with big data processing frameworks and related technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Airflow, and Data Lakes.
• Preferred - 2+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, or Node.js.

Working at Spokeo

Our mission is to advance transparency, and to achieve that goal, we rally around six core values: listening with empathy, understanding the why, clarifying with data, innovating to learn, collaborating to achieve, and insisting on quality.

As a remote-first company, we are able to hire team members residing in the following US states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KY, MD, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NV, NC, PA, SC, SD, TX, VA, or WA.

In addition to a highly competitive base salary, our generous benefits include:

• participation in an individual annual bonus

• stock options

• 401K

• 100% medical/dental/vision coverage

• unlimited PTO

• mental health resources

• paid home office equipment

• fitness reimbursements

• support paying for courses

• and more

We extend written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Offers will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, marketplace competition, job leveling, experience, and skills.

Privacy Notice for Candidates: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy

Spokeo is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products, and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Note: You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of one’s employment visa at this time.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm who presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully executed agreement on file, and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.

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