Backend Engineer Coding Challenge - FastAPI

Problem Statement

Create the back end portion of a simple magazine subscription service where users can manage subscriptions to available magazines using a REST API.

Stack

You can choose to implement a solution to this problem in any set of Python technologies you choose, but if you'd like a frame of reference (and time-saver), this repo contains a sample project starter with the following web stack:

• Python 3
• FastAPI
• SQLALchemy
• SQLite3

Setup

• Install Poetry

  # On Linux/MacOS
  curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python -

• Install project dependencies

  poetry install

Implementation details

• Create SQLAlchemy ORM models
  • Add new definitions in app/models/
  • Register them in app/models/__init__.py
• Create CRUD accessors for each of the models
  • Add new definitions in app/crud/
  • Register them in app/crud/__init__.py
• Create API endpoints for each of the models
  • Add new definitions in app/api/endpoints/
  • Register them in app/api/__init__.py
• Add tests if any in app/tests/

Running / Testing

• poetry run python -m app.main
• poetry run pytest

Submitting your results

We are interested in understanding your approach and structuring a conversation around your implementation.

To prepare and send your submission:

1. Clone this repository and implement your solution
2. Create an archive of the project directory (e.g. - tar -czf my-name-submission.tar.gz ./my-project-directory)
3. Email your submission to [email protected]