10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a senior or principal role.
Expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL) and related protocols like OAuth2 and OpenAPI.
Strong background in integration, event-driven architectures, and interacting with complex third-party APIs.
Fullstack experience using modern frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js) and backend tech (Node.js, Python, Java).
Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi).
Solid understanding of data management, relational and NoSQL databases, and performance tuning.
Experience with modern AI development tools and the ability to effectively incorporate them into workflows.
Responsibilities
Lead the design and evolution of APIs, treating them as products.
Manage integrations end-to-end, ensuring quality and reliability across systems.
Deliver full-stack features with a focus on backend services and integration.
Establish and uphold technical standards for API design and integration patterns.
Mentor and multiply the capabilities of a small engineering team through collaboration.
Collaborate with product security and data teams on architectural decisions and roadmap.
Employ AI tools effectively for development processes.
Benefits
Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a growing team.
Collaborative environment with cross-team partnerships.
Access to cutting-edge AI development tools and methodologies.
Mentorship opportunities in a leadership role.
Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Role description
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to own the systems that connect everything we do.
You'll spend most of your time designing APIs building integrations with third-party platforms and shaping the end-to-end experience on top of them.
This is a senior individual contributor role with real technical leadership scope.
You'll set technical direction mentor a small team and partner closely with product security and data.
AI assisted development is part of how we work. You'll be expected to use Claude Codex GitHub Copilot Claude Code and similar tools as force multipliers not curiosities
What You'll Do
Lead the API platform Design build and evolve our REST and GraphQL surface including webhooks and async event driven patterns Treat APIs as products with developer users not plumbing
Own integrations end-to-end Build and maintain connections with external systems vendors data providers and internal legacy platforms including contracts versioning observability retries and graceful failure
Ship full stack features across backend services data layer and modern web frontends with a strong bias toward the backend and integration tier
Set the technical standard for API design guidelines integration patterns testing strategy code review culture and threat modelling
Multiply the team by mentoring 36 engineers through pairing RFCs and design reviews Raise the bar without slowing people down
Partner across the organization with product security platform and data teams on roadmap SLAs and architecture decisions
Use AI tools thoughtfully across design exploration code generation refactoring review test generation and documentation Know where to trust them and where not to
Required Qualifications
10 years of professional software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a senior or principal capacity
Deep API expertise REST and GraphQL, OpenAPI Swagger authentication patterns OAuth2 OIDC mTLS versioning rate limiting idempotency pagination and error semantics
Strong integration background event driven architectures message queues such as Kafka SQS RabbitMQ or similar webhooks ETLELT retries dead letter strategies and integrating with complex third-party APIs and legacy systems
Fullstack production experience with a modern frontend framework such as React, Nextjs with TypeScript or equivalent and a primary backend language such as Nodejs Python Java Go or C
Cloud native fluency with AWS Azure or GCP including container orchestration infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi and CICD pipelines
Solid data fundamentals including relational and NoSQL stores SQL fluency schema design query tuning and performance tuning
Handson fluent use of modern AI development tools such as Claude Codex GitHub Copilot Claude Code Cursor or similar You can speak concretely about what youve shipped with them how your workflow works and where youve learned not to trust them
Demonstrated technical leadership through mentoring engineers writing design documents driving crossteam decisions and influencing without formal authority
