About the Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the API Squad, you’ll be instrumental in building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and user-friendly API integrations. You’ll own projects end-to-end—collaborating with Product Managers, Developers, and UX Designers to deliver best-in-class solutions. Success in this role will be measured by the reliability, scalability, and performance of APIs, the adoption rate of new API features, and feedback from both internal stakeholders and external customers.
- Participate in all phases of the SDLC: design, development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, estimate complexity, and address blockers.
- Own end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring performance and stability across infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems.
- Write clean, secure, testable, and maintainable code using industry best practices.
- Lead code reviews, promote design patterns, and ensure reusable, readable, and test-driven development.
- Monitor and analyze performance metrics to identify and implement system improvements.
- Document processes, write technical documentation, and contribute to standards that benefit the team and organization.
Responsibilities:
- When involved in a project, help translating requirements, estimating, solve or escalate blockers/points worth of discussion.
- Develop APIs designed to scale efficiently, ensuring low latency and high availability in high-traffic environments.
- Have ownership of entire projects, being able to understand and answer about all of its aspects (infrastructure, back-end and front-end).
- Delivers code that encourages the team in terms of best practices, readability, design patterns, reusability and testing.
- When shipping and maintaining, keep an eye on data to raise if anything needs to be refactored or improved.
- Demonstrates leadership by mentoring peers, fostering a culture of learning, and promoting a positive team environment.