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That includes services and operational tools for our device teams, and APIs and SDKs for customers building with our hardware and data. You'll be responsible for service and API design, data integrity, production reliability, and compatibility across device and customer workflows. As data collection grows, these systems need to stay understandable and dependable, especially when devices disconnect, transfers stop, or services fail.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn service and API design for connected hardware and data-intensive workflows, including the data models behind them.\n\nKeep data accurate and complete, and keep production services reliable, across device and customer workflows.\n\nBuild telemetry, diagnostics, and operational tools that help engineers understand how devices and services are behaving.\n\nDevelop APIs, SDKs, and command-line tools that help hardware and data customers integrate Mecka into their workflows.\n\nImplement asynchronous workflows that handle retries, duplicate events, and interrupted transfers predictably.\n\nTest complete user workflows end to end, and maintain documentation, monitoring, and backward compatibility as the platform evolves.\n\nWhat You Bring\nMust-have:\n5+ years of software engineering experience, including strong backend programming and operating production services in a language such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.\n\nDepth in at least one of these areas:\nService reliability: telemetry, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational tooling for distributed systems.\n\nDeveloper experience: APIs, SDKs, command-line tools, documentation, and useful examples.\n\nExperience designing APIs, data schemas, and databases, with practical knowledge of SQL and query performance.\n\nUnderstanding of how distributed systems fail, including retries, duplicate events, interrupted transfers, and intermittent connectivity.\n\nKnowledge of authentication, authorization, automated testing, versioning, and release practices.\n\nAbility to debug across services, client software, and device interfaces, and to explain system behavior clearly.\n\nNice-to-have:\nExperience with connected hardware or operational web applications.\n\nExperience building public SDKs or working with large video and sensor datasets.\n\nA Note on Applying\nStudies show women and candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they meet 100% of the listed qualifications, while others apply after meeting 60%. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.\nInclusive Hiring at Mecka\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience. Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation. Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category. 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