
Staff Engineer - API-team - Product Platforms
AlphaSense3 days ago
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical owner for API-first systems within your team and domain.
- Design, build, and evolve high-scale APIs used by internal teams, external customers, and intelligent agents.
- Apply API governance, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility in your systems.
- Contribute to API standards, design principles, and best practices through hands-on work and technical reviews.
- Tackle complex problems where requirements are ambiguous and constraints are real.
- Partner with Product, Platform, and SRE teams to ensure APIs are reliable, observable, secure, and scalable.
- Identify and reduce technical risks within your domain.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through example.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a senior or staff-level software engineer working on applications and backend systems.
- Experience building product platforms or shared services consumed by multiple teams.
- Track record of designing, building, and operating APIs at scale.
- Strong hands-on experience with RESTful APIs.
- Some experience with GraphQL (design, usage, or operating in production).
- Solid understanding of system design, performance, reliability, and evolution over time.
- Strong bias toward hands-on contribution and ownership of real systems.
- Ability to influence technical direction within and across teams through credibility and execution.
Benefits
- Playing a part in the story of a fast-growing company.
- Interesting career opportunities and training.
- Relocation support for single employees, couples, and families.
- Flexible working arrangements with a focus on outcomes.
- Private healthcare services from Terveystalo.
- 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, with the possibility to use vacation days as they accrue.
- Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and more.
Tech Stack
GraphQL