Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, mission-critical backend systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with TypeScript or Python and strong OO/functional design skills.
• 4+ years of experience building and operating web service APIs (REST/SOAP/GraphQL) at scale.
• Demonstrated experience owning complex features or systems from design through production.

Nice to Haves

• Comfort using AI-assisted code generation tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: concurrency, multithreading, consistency, fault tolerance, and performance tuning.
• Strong experience with API design and lifecycle: OpenAPI/Swagger, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, contract testing, and documentation.
• Experience with API gateway or edge patterns including routing, authentication/authorization, throttling, rate limiting, transformation, multi-tenant concerns.
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (metrics, tracing, logging) and using them to improve latency and reliability.
• Familiarity with GraphQL and data-oriented APIs; exposure to Data Cloud / analytical stores or MCP-style agent integration patterns.
• Strong testing discipline with experience in unit, integration, contract, performance testing, and tools like JUnit, ScalaTest, Postman, Mockito, Jacoco/Scoverage.
• Experience with cloud and containerized environments (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and driving cross-team initiatives.
• Ability to translate product and AI/agent requirements into robust API and backend designs.
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces with a bias for pragmatic, iterative delivery.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead end-to-end design and development of complex backend services and APIs.
• Drive consensus with product managers, architects, and partner teams to define clear, evolvable API contracts and data models using OpenAPI and internal standards.
• Drive performance and scalability improvements including latency optimization, capacity planning, and resiliency strategies for mission-critical product flows.
• Design and implement observability for product APIs (metrics, tracing, structured logging), using data to drive technical decisions and establish SLOs.
• Collaborate on frameworks, tools, and patterns that simplify API definition, publishing, and maintenance for Product Engineering teams.
• Work with data platform teams to define safe and efficient data exposure patterns to API and agent workflows.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, RFCs, spike investigations, and coaching junior engineers.
• Participate in and improve on-call and incident response processes; own root cause analysis and long-term remediation of significant issues.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to teams across Product Engineering to aid API and integration decisions.
• Lead design and implementation of APIs and platform features used by Product Engineering teams.
• Champion consistent API standards, patterns, and tooling aligned with cross-org guidance while addressing specific product needs.
• Help Product Engineering teams expose capabilities via REST, GraphQL, and emerging integration patterns friendly to agents and external consumers.

Perks and Benefits

• Flexible work approach combining in-person and remote time, with at least 50% of time spent in-office or in the field per quarter.
• Opportunity to work for a Fortune 500 company with a culture rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm.
• Trust to take risks, tools to grow, skills development, and long-term support from the company.
• Competitive base salary range (€86,400 EUR - €129,600 EUR for Ireland location) plus eligibility for bonus plans and stock grants.
• Commitment to accessible and inclusive hiring experience with accommodations available.
• Equal opportunity employer supporting individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.