Job Opportunities API

Who We Are The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company on a mission to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. For 30 years, we’ve been helping people make better investment decisions through transparency, education, and a healthy dose of Foolish fun. We’re a fast-moving, collaborative team that values high-quality work, curiosity, and initiative. We care deeply about what we do, and we’re driven by the impact our work has on real people’s financial futures. With a growing portfolio of 50+ subscription products, we're investing heavily in the technology that powers Fool.com — one of the most widely read financial sites on the web — and the systems that turn readers into long-term members.  What Does This Team Do?  The Fool.com team owns the public-facing experience that millions of readers, search engine crawlers, and prospective subscribers hit every day. Today, the team is strong on the client side: we have two excellent front-end engineers shipping interface work. We're looking for an engineer who can own the server-side and infrastructure layer of the site alongside them. About the Role This is a full-stack role with a clear weighting toward the parts of the system that run before pixels reach the browser — API integrations, server-rendered routes, caching, observability, deployment, and the SEO-critical surface that determines how millions of crawler requests resolve. Much of fool.com is server side rendered.  What You'll Do Build and maintain server-side features in our Next.js App Router codebase using TypeScript — route handlers, server components, server actions, streaming, ISR, and revalidation strategy.  Design and harden integrations with the third-party APIs that power our content, market data, and subscription experiences. We care a lot about doing this well: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks, and graceful degradation when upstream services misbehave are first-class concerns, not afterthoughts. Own caching strategy across Redis and Cloudflare , balancing freshness against performance, cost, and crawler behavior. Deploy and operate services on AWS using Docker , with first-class instrumentation in DataDog so we catch issues before our readers and crawlers do. Write meaningful end-to-end coverage with Microsoft Playwright for the flows that matter most. Optimize the site for the way it's actually consumed by SEO crawlers : rendering strategy, structured data, sitemap generation, canonicalization, hreflang, robots directives, performance budgets, and crawl budget management. Partner with our front-end engineers on the seam between server and client, and collaborate with content, marketing, SEO, and platform teams across the company. Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) as a core part of your daily workflow — we have a company-wide commitment to use the latest tooling and workflows to make every person as impactful as possible. Integrate with our CMS for content management What We're Looking For 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on the server side of a production web application. Strong TypeScript and Next.js experience, including the App Router, server components, route handlers, ISR, and streaming. Demonstrated track record integrating third-party APIs in production, with clear opinions about how to do it safely. You've debugged a flaky upstream at 11pm and you have views about it. Solid grounding in caching (Redis or equivalent) and CDN behavior (Cloudflare or equivalent), including cache invalidation, stale-while-revalidate patterns, and edge vs. origin tradeoffs. Comfort with AWS , Docker , and modern CI/CD workflows. Working knowledge of how SEO crawlers actually see a site : how Googlebot renders JavaScript, what causes soft 404s, how canonical and hreflang tags affect indexin