Ask HN: Find developers to work on API back-engineering
I'm a PO that's developing a fintech product in South Africa. Our banks don't play nicely in terms of data extraction and APIs are non-existent. No such thing as open banking here.
I am looking to hire a developer that is a specialist in reverse-engineering the API's that the bank's use to connect their mobile apps to their servers. We would then use the structure of those API's to build our own products on top of. We currently have a version of this product that works using scraping, but we're exploring a solution that is more sustainable.
2 Questions:
1. What specific skills should I be looking for in this developer? Native experience? Backend/API-specific?
2. Where best to look for that type of developer, if anyone has any advice?
I am looking to hire a developer that is a specialist in reverse-engineering the API's that the bank's use to connect their mobile apps to their servers. We would then use the structure of those API's to build our own products on top of. We currently have a version of this product that works using scraping, but we're exploring a solution that is more sustainable.
2 Questions:
1. What specific skills should I be looking for in this developer? Native experience? Backend/API-specific? 2. Where best to look for that type of developer, if anyone has any advice?
TIA