Onsite Lead API Engineer

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About the role

  • Lead API Engineer at Gradera defining Software-Orchestrated Services and collaborating across teams. Responsible for mentorship, design, and implementation of secure API solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the API engineering team
  • Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of API architecture and backend services
  • Champion API-first development, ensuring clear contracts and comprehensive documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
  • Architect and implement secure, scalable, and performant APIs
  • Drive adoption of best practices in API design, versioning, and integration
  • Collaborate closely with product, UI, and runtime teams to deliver integrated solutions

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
  • Proven experience leading API or backend engineering teams and delivering complex API projects
  • Deep expertise in API architecture, design, and implementation (RESTful, GraphQL, etc.)
  • Strong programming skills in relevant backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.)
  • Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, PKCE)
  • Experience with API documentation and standards (OpenAPI/Swagger, Use Case, JSON Schemas, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and reliability for APIs
  • Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management abilities

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Professional development

Job title

Lead API Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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