API/Integrations Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of RESTful APIs and integration services.
• Own API specifications (Open API/Swagger) and enforce standards across teams.
• Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring to offshore developers.
• Configure and manage the API platform (Azure API Management) security policies, traffic management, versioning.
• Integrate APIs with backend systems, cloud services, and third-party platforms.
• Drive CI/CD automation and DevOps practices.
• Serve as the onshore escalation point for production incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Required Qualifications

Requirements

• 8+ years in software/integration engineering; 3+ years in a lead or senior API/integration role.
• Enterprise-scale environments with production SLA ownership.
• Leading and coordinating offshore delivery teams.
• Technical Skills
• Hands-on with .NET or Python and Azure services (Functions, API Management).
• Strong grasp of RESTful design, API versioning, and integration patterns (event-driven, messaging).
• Solid knowledge of OAuth2 / OpenID Connect authentication and JSON/XML data formats.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL backends, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling for distributed systems.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into APIs (RAG, prompt design, guardrails).
• Experience with MCPs and other AI native technologies will be a huge plus.
• Mandatory: hands-on experience with Claude Code, Codex or something similar.
• Professional Skills
• Strong technical leadership with an ownership mindset.
• Clear communicator with solid stakeholder management.
• Comfortable working independently and making sound technical decisions.
• Collaborative across cross-functional teams.
• Education
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field (required).
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or related discipline (preferred).
• ***** Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time*****
• How We Support Our Teammates
• The target salary range for this position is $112,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually.

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Additional Information

Position Summary The API / Integrations Lead owns the design, development, and operational support of enterprise APIs and integration services. This is a hands-on technical leadership role - building scalable, secure, and reliable APIs while coordinating offshore delivery teams and collaborating with application, cloud, security, DevOps, and business stakeholders. What will your job entail?

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