Platform API Architect

Summary

Join our team as a Platform API Architect and play a dual role as both technical leader and hands-on contributor. You will define the long-term vision for our API architecture, create and maintain API design principles, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure APIs are well-documented, modular, consistent, and reusable.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in API design, architecture, and development
• Strong understanding of RESTful and GraphQL design principles
• Proficiency in one more API technologies like .NET or Node.js (our current APIs are .NET)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud, AWS)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision for our API architecture, considering scalability, security, and future enhancements
• Create and maintain API design principles, standards, and best practices to ensure APIs are modular, consistent, and reusable
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify API requirements and use cases
• Establish governance process for API changes, versioning, and deprecation
• Ensure APIs are well-documented, modular, consistent, and reusable
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools
• Lead the design and review of critical API changes
• Mentor and guide development teams to ensure adherence to architectural guidelines and consistency across APIs
• Optimize API performance, consider latency, caching, and data retrieval
• Integrate APIs with monitoring, logging, and analytics tools to track usage, performance, and reliability
• Support third-party integrations and partner APIs

Benefits

• Paid company holidays
• Unlimited PTO
• Company paid healthcare benefits
• Equity options for full-time employees