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Metro-based backend lead with common API skillset creates moderate applicant competition.
Backend API and leadership skills are moderately transferable across industries and domains.
Explicit 7+ years requirement plus mandatory API, gateway, and leadership skills impose strict filters.
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Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable, secure, and high-performing API architecture and backend services.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the API engineering team, ensuring engineering rigor, code quality, and documentation standards.
Drive the adoption of API-first development practices and collaborate cross-functionally to enable seamless integrations and meet stringent non-functional requirements.
7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
Proven experience with RESTful APIs and other API protocols (GraphQL, gRPC).
Strong programming skills in backend languages such as Node.js, Python, Java, or Go.
Experience with API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, RBAC), API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and API gateways.
Experienced leader capable of managing and mentoring API engineering teams in agile, cross-functional settings.
Expertise in building and scaling reliable API systems with a strong focus on security, performance optimization, and operational reliability.
Able to navigate ambiguity and rapid change while balancing technical excellence and delivery speed, with strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.