Backend Engineer (API)

Whip Around Auckland, New Zealand
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Some engineers love frontend. Some love infrastructure. Some are happiest designing clean APIs, building reliable backend services, and making complex systems feel simple.

If that's you, keep reading.

At Whip Around we're investing heavily in product and engineering following a recent majority investment from Accel-KKR (AKKR). We're looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building and evolving the APIs that power our platform. What you'll be doing You'll spend most of your time:

• Designing and building RESTful APIs • Modelling data and designing database structures • Creating integrations and backend services • Improving performance, reliability and scalability • Working closely with mobile engineers on API contracts • Building secure, well-tested systems that customers rely on every day

This isn't a role where you'll spend your week tweaking CSS or debating button colours. It's backend engineering in its purest form.