jobs in the wild.

### what you'd do - Work on high streaming data, critical infrastructure like billing - OAuth 2 protocols, authentication, and fine-grained authorization protocols - Work on the critical infra like billing (with high granularity and precision) - You will be working on a variety of microservices - Errors that actually explain what failed at step 4 - ✍️ You can write clean and maintainable code. You care about code quality and maintainability. You care about a good system design that is future proof. However you do not overengineer anything without a good cause. ### stack (today) - Python 3.14+, `uv`, FastAPI, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust (rare but sometimes), Node.js, Gin, Express.js - Kafka, Grafana, Stripe payment gateway, MongoDB, etc. - Docker, linux and cloud based services - Subprocess job runs + logs you can read - Lots of SDKs ### you're a fit if ✅ - You've debugged real systems (tracebacks, retries, sane concurrency) - You're fine with messy JSON from the UI - You have a good understanding of system design - You do not throw money at your AI agents - You know what you are doing - Have good command over version control system (git) - Have good communication skills and understand the requirements within a few iterations ### probably skip if - Day-one asking to migrate to Rust for no reason - You never look at what the frontend displays - You do not care for the growth of the company - You are looking for a 9-5 job - You need to be dictated what needs to be done step by step - Not active over Slack for hours - Blindly use AI and push your code without testing