About the role

Role Overview

Join Databento’s Platform/API engineering team as a Software Engineer (TypeScript/JavaScript). You’ll build and maintain the company’s JavaScript client library, integrate native functionality, and contribute to responsive front-end and full-stack projects.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and promote the JavaScript client library, ensuring it is robust, well-tested, and easy for external users to adopt
Integrate native libraries into JavaScript/TypeScript (e.g., via N-API, node-addon-api, or Wasm)
Contribute to full-stack projects, including backend work (Python or Rust), REST API design, and databases/migrations
Collaborate with design to translate designs into production-ready components and design systems
Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines and document components (e.g., library/component docs)
Collaborate cross-functionally to support smooth feature rollouts and updates

Requirements

Hands-on backend experience building APIs, working with databases, and performing migrations
Experience documenting components (e.g., Storybook or similar tooling)
Ability to work between design and engineering teams to deliver production-ready design systems (including tooling like Figma handoffs)
Full-stack experience with backends in Python or Rust, including REST API design
Proficiency with React, Redux, Vite, Web Workers, and WebSockets
Strong communication skills and a reliable work ethic for a remote environment

Nice-to-Haves

Background in trading, market data, or quantitative finance

About Databento

Databento is a technology company focused on delivering market data and developer platform capabilities. The role sits within its Platform/API engineering team, building developer-facing APIs and client libraries for integrating market data into applications.