Staff Engineer - API-team - Product Platforms

3 days ago

Helsinki, FinlandStaff+

H1B Sponsor

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.

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.

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.

GraphQL