How to Apply: Senior Python Engineer at HowGood

Submit your application by sending a signed POST request to our API. This is part of the application process. It demonstrates you can read docs and write working integration code.

Endpoint

POST https://howgood-apply-api.howgood.workers.dev/apply
Content-Type: application/json
X-HMAC-Signature: <hex-encoded HMAC-SHA256 of the raw request body>

HMAC Signing

Every request must include an X-HMAC-Signature header containing the hex-encoded HMAC-SHA256 digest of the raw JSON request body.

Secret key: hg2026_python_engineer@!

Payload

Field	Type	Required	Notes
`name`	string	yes	Your full name
`email`	string	yes	Contact email
`resume`	string	yes	URL to your resume (PDF preferred)
`location`	string	yes	Where you're based (city, country)
`linkedin`	string	yes	LinkedIn profile URL
`codeLink`	string	yes	URL to the code you wrote to submit this application
`yearsPython`	integer	no	Years of Python experience (default 0)
`yearsDjango`	integer	no	Years of Django experience (default 0)
`repos`	string	no	URL to additional repos or portfolio
`notes`	string	no	Anything else you'd like us to know

Example (Python)

import hashlib, hmac, json, requests

secret = "hg2026_python_engineer@!"
endpoint = "https://howgood-apply-api.howgood.workers.dev/apply"

payload = {
    "name": "",
    "email": "",
    "resume": "",       # URL to your resume
    "location": "",     # e.g. "New York, NY"
    "linkedin": "",
    "codeLink": "",     # URL to the repo/gist containing THIS script
    "yearsPython": 0,
    "yearsDjango": 0,
}

body = json.dumps(payload)
signature = hmac.new(secret.encode(), body.encode(), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()

resp = requests.post(
    endpoint,
    data=body,
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-HMAC-Signature": signature,
    },
)
print(resp.status_code, resp.json())

Response

On success you'll receive 201 Created with your application ID:

{"timestamp": "2026-02-03T12:00:00Z"}

On error, the response body describes what went wrong. Fix the issue and resubmit.