Staff Software Engineer leading the evolution of the OpenAPI platform for enhancing travel experiences. Collaborating on API development, architecture, and partner integration strategies.
Responsibilities
You’ll act as the technical lead for your team.
You will own the full lifecycle of our new APIs, from design and versioning to rollout, deprecation, and continuous improvement, with a clear focus on reliability, performance, and partner experience.
You’ll collaborate with Product and Partner Success to shape the OpenAPI roadmap, balancing new capabilities with platform hardening and scalability.
Over 12–18 months, your impact will be visible in stronger partner adoption, higher API reliability, and faster time-to-integration for OTAs and TMCs.
You will define and evolve the architecture of our OpenAPI platform, ensuring it scales to support new products, partners, and traffic levels.
Establish and champion API design standards (OpenAPI specifications, versioning, backward compatibility) across teams building on the Indirect Booking Ecosystem.
Lead complex, cross-team initiatives such as shared libraries, common integration patterns, and reliability improvements that span multiple services and squads.
Own key non-functional outcomes for our APIs, including latency, availability, error rates, and partner integration success.
Partner directly with OTAs and TMCs’ technical teams to understand their needs, guide integrations, and turn their feedback into improvements to our platform and documentation.
Requirements
8+ years of professional experience designing and building scalable software solutions in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Proven experience leading technical discussions and driving decisions that balance delivery speed, maintainability, and long-term system health.
Deep understanding of Java (Spring Boot), cloud deployments (preferably AWS), and distributed system design.
A strong understanding of testing and the test pyramid, as well as pipelines and feedback loops, with a focus on quality delivery (JUnit, Mockito).
Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, system design, and performance optimization.
Extensive experience designing and evolving public- or partner-facing APIs, ideally using OpenAPI/Swagger, with a strong focus on usability, consistency, and backward compatibility.
Hands-on experience with API platforms and integration patterns (e.g., API gateways, OAuth2, API keys, rate limiting, webhooks vs. polling, idempotency, resiliency patterns).
Proven track record leading multi-team or multi-service architectural initiatives, such as API redesigns, large refactors, or migrations in distributed systems.
Experience working directly with external partners’ or enterprise customers’ engineering teams to deliver integrations or platform capabilities.
Travel, airline, e-commerce, or other highly regulated domain experience is a plus, especially if you’ve worked with complex transactional systems.
Demonstrated experience mentoring developers, performing code reviews, and improving team velocity and quality metrics.
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
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