Staff Software Engineer

Role overview Lead the design and delivery of API and integration products that let developers and partners connect with a digital product ecosystem. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will make architectural decisions, contribute directly to implementation and operations, and align work across engineering, product, data, infrastructure, and business teams.

Responsibilities - Shape technical roadmaps and lead API and integration initiatives from early design through launch and ongoing operation. - Define reusable practices for API contracts, access control, versioning, rate limits, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer usability. - Design systems that connect internal services and external platforms, managing dependencies and tradeoffs across security, performance, reliability, cost, and future change. - Establish service health measures and operational practices, including observability, incident response, support, and reliability targets. - Translate partner and product needs into technical priorities, evaluate implementation options, and communicate recommendations to varied audiences. - Mentor engineers and improve shared practices through design reviews, pairing, code reviews, and reusable technical guidance.

Requirements - At least 8 years of professional software development, including hands-on technical leadership on complex production systems. - Demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products, with strong knowledge of API design and lifecycle management. - Experience evolving distributed, high-scale systems with sound security, reliability, observability, and performance. - Track record leading substantial work across teams or services, from problem definition through production operation. - Experience setting production-readiness standards and reliability practices, and aligning technical and nontechnical stakeholders. - Ability to mentor engineers, resolve cross-team ambiguity, and connect architecture choices to customer and business outcomes.

Nice to have - Work with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems. - Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, or PostgreSQL.

Benefits and work setup Remote work across eligible US locations or an office option in Manhattan. Benefits include flexible vacation, volunteer time, technology and home-office stipends, wellness and lifestyle support, health coverage, retirement matching, insurance, parental and family-building benefits, and an employee retail discount. The stated target salary range is $169,000–$185,000, with potential incentive and equity for eligible roles.