Staff Software Engineer, API Hub

Rapid is a team of creators delivering the next-generation API platform built for the modern developer. Our users range from independent developers to the largest companies in the world. We work hard to make it easy for developers to build, use, and share APIs faster while providing enterprise-wide visibility and governance. As a result, entrepreneurs and enterprises can concentrate on creating value and business outcomes.
How do we make this happen?  Rapid is the creator of RapidAPI Hub, the world’s largest API hub, where more than 4 million developers discover, evaluate and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from leading companies like Twilio, Microsoft and Google and more. Rapid also offers RapidAPI Studio, which provides developers with a single, connected experience to design, develop, test, monitor and publish their APIs. For enterprise organizations, Rapid offers RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a private, customizable version of the public hub that enables the company’s developers, customers, and partners to find, manage, and connect to hundreds of internal APIs, as well as external API subscriptions.
We operate at scale when the opportunity is even greater. We offer you the opportunity to make a difference and empower developers to build modern software through API innovation while doing the most critical work of your career. 
About the Position
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead the future development of Rapid’s core product, the API Hub. This role will lead technical development for the user experience of every one of Rapid’s customers as we evolve to an expanded product platform. The ideal candidate has strong technical expertise in building front-end applications while also being comfortable iterating on our backend APIs. They would strive to take ownership of the end-to-end customer experience for the Hub, from beautiful, intuitive workflows to the operations needed to ensure we are delivering a high-quality product to our customers.

In this role, you will:

• Define the front-end vision, technical architecture, and hands-on implementation of the API Hub product with sustained quality and feature-velocity
• Employ a test-first approach, ensuring reliability and security are top of mind
• Engage with product management to decide priorities and roadmaps, balancing technical stability with feature velocity
• Work closely with our product design team to ensure a crisp and consistent user experience
• Mentor and grow the engineering team

You have:

• Development experience building, operating, testing, and debugging web applications using modern Javascript  frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
• Some experience with GraphQL
• A keen eye for design and utilizing reusable components where possible
• A desire to operate with a modern software development life cycle that is focused on reliability and developer productivity
• Experience growing junior engineers, helping them learn through their mistakes while providing guardrails to learning

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing and high-scale startup company distributed across the US, Europe, and Israel. You'll be taking our product to the next level within a high-talent-density team and out-of-the-box thinking. Having raised $150 million in a Series D investment round in 2022; you’ll be working with a team that is scaling globally, fast.
If this sounds like you, click apply below! We’d love to hear from you.