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Senior backend lead with popular API skills but lesser-known startup brand yields moderate competition.
Backend API skills are widely transferable across industries and domains.
Explicit 7+ years, mandatory API/backend leadership, and required gateway/security expertise make screening strict.
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Lead design, implementation, and continuous evolution of API architecture and backend services ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guide adoption of API-first practices, including robust contract definitions and documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).
Collaborate cross-functionally across product, UI, runtime, and SDET teams to ensure integrated solutions meeting non-functional requirements like security, scalability, and reliability.
7+ years of hands-on API or backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
Proven expertise in API architecture and implementation including RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC, and strong backend programming skills (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.).
Experience with API security and authorization protocols (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, PKCE) and usage of API gateways (mandatory).
Competence in API documentation standards (OpenAPI/Swagger) and backend performance optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Experienced in leading API/backend teams delivering complex, scalable, and reliable API systems with measurable success metrics like latency, uptime, and developer velocity.
Comfortable driving API-first development culture in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with strong collaboration across multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
Proficient in modern development and deployment practices (CI/CD, automated testing), mentoring engineers, and aligning technical design with business/product needs through API domain modeling.