Platform APIs Lead
CARTO
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- Lead, guide, and mentor the Platforms API team at CARTO. A productive and high-quality engineering team (3 engineers) developing world-class software around geospatial.
- Be responsible for the evolution and maintenance of CARTO’s public APIs. The entire stack of the CARTO platform is built on top of these APIs, so you will have to deal with performance and stability at scale (billions of calls per month and hundreds of thousands users) .
- Spend about 30% of your time on management and 70% on coding.
- Ensure that the software we deliver meets quality standards, scales properly, and is maintainable as we grow.
- Push Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, and Databricks to their limits. You’ll also get the chance to understand the internals of all these data warehouses.
- Work on defining and advancing new standards in the geospatial industry like spatiotemporal data or spatial indexes (h3/quadbin) to support visualizations of hundreds of millions of rows, geoparquet, or evolve the MVT format.
Your offer
- A solid 3+ years of experience as a backend developer, with a mature approach to the job and related tools and processes (git/GitHub, documentation, testing,...).
- Demonstrable experience working with scalable, distributed, and high-performance APIs and databases.
- Strong knowledge SQL and experience writing performance queries to read large datasets.
- You are familiar with managing performance with databases and concepts like indexes, clustering, partitions, etc.
- Experience in building scalable and high-performance distributed APIs.
- Know how to debug errors in distributed APIs using logging and monitoring tools
- Earlier experience working with a cloud data warehouse like Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks.
- Ability to analyze complex technical issues and provide effective solutions.
- Know how to debug errors in distributed APIs using logging and monitoring tools
Nice to have
- Geospatial industry knowledge.
- NodeJS and/or Typescript.
- Fluent using Docker.
We offer
- Competitive, results-based compensation
- Access to our employee stock options plan
- Private medical insurance
- Flexible work hours in a focused but casual environment
- Education Stipend
- Flexible compensation
- English classes
- A big vision: to help the world use location-based data to make better decisions. We believe that openness and sustainability are baked into this vision, and we’re sharing it with the world.
- Contribute to a platform used by top companies around the world. Your work will have a direct impact on our users and clients.
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