Smartly Backend Homework

At Smartly we have a REST API that supports fetching and making updates to the various records in our system. The purpose of this coding assignment is to design and develop a working API for a simplified version of a Smartly user’s career profile.

Overview

Develop a database schema and API that can be used to create, fetch, and update a simplified version of a Smartly user’s career profile.

Data Model

The career profile should include the following:

• A reference to a specific user
• A “personal fact” about the user
• Whether the user is open to working remotely
• A list of jobs the user has had, each with the following information:
  • The company’s name
  • The user’s job title
  • The date range during which the user worked at this job
  • A list of responsibilities that the user had at this job

API

The API should...

• require authentication (more on this below)
• accept a JSON-formatted career profile and create new records in the database or update existing ones, as necessary
• allow a user to fetch and update his own career profile
• allow an admin user to fetch and update any career profile
• not allow a normal user (non-admin) to fetch or update someone else's profile
• return responses with appropriate HTTP response codes for success and failure conditions

Authentication

Authentication should...

• allow for identifying the role or user associated with the requests to support admin/non-admin permissions described above
• assume all requests are delivered over HTTPS
• be sufficient to implement this toy homework assignment; it need not be a comprehensive solution.

Note that your authentication implementation may use 3rd party libraries, if you wish.

Deliverables

Upon successful completion of this project the candidate should provide:

• All server-side code, database schema, configuration and architectural details necessary for a competent engineer to be able to setup a running instance of the service
• Unit and/or functional tests
• Instructions for interacting with the API, such as via 3rd party tool, the command line, or even simple web UI.

Additional Notes and Rules

• You may consult any books, websites, or other references you wish.
• You may use any third-party tools, libraries, frameworks, etc. that you wish.
• The result should represent the caliber of work we can expect from you so please do the work yourself.