Remote API Developer
Pay for this full-time, fully remote opening runs up to $115,000 a year, and location isn't a factor since the team works wherever its members are. The job centers on APIs that other teams, and sometimes other companies, depend on to keep working.
Skills you'll need on day one
- Hands-on experience building REST or GraphQL APIs, not just consuming them
- Solid backend chops in whatever language your APIs run on, ideally one from the JavaScript, Python, or Java family
- Database design skills, since a poorly modeled schema shows up as an API problem eventually
- Working knowledge of API security practices, including authentication and rate limiting
- Comfort with documentation tools, since undocumented endpoints create support tickets down the line
The work itself
Design, build, and document APIs that other developers will actually read the docs for before pinging you with questions. Keep data exchange between systems both secure and reliable by considering failure modes as much as happy paths. Work directly with front-end engineers and partner teams that integrate with your endpoints, catching mismatches in expectations before they turn into production bugs.
Requests for changes to a live endpoint come from multiple directions at once on a team like this, and someone needs to weigh backward compatibility against the fastest fix. That's a normal part of the job, not an exception.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related field covers the education requirement. Beyond that, the role requires 24 months of hands-on experience designing and building APIs used by real clients, whether internal teams or external partners. Backend programming skills need to be solid, not just familiar from a bootcamp project.
What would make you stand out
- Experience with an API gateway tool such as Kong or Apigee
- Comfort writing OpenAPI or Swagger specs that other teams can actually build against
- Some exposure to microservices architecture and the coordination it demands
Compensation and perks
The listing tops out at $115,000 annually, which falls solidly within the range most candidates researching remote api developer salaries would expect for this level of experience.
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k) matching
- Full remote-work flexibility, with no fixed office to report to
- Tuition reimbursement or a learning stipend for continued skill-building
Applying
Send a resume plus a link to any API documentation you've written or contributed to. This step, run through Naukri Mitra's screening process, is quick, and candidates who make it through hear back within a few business days for a technical conversation. Bring questions about the endpoints you'd be maintaining. The team would rather answer them upfront than have someone discover a mismatch three weeks into the job.
