Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations
MeridianLink3 months ago
Base Salary
$153k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reference architecture for the Platform Integrations layer, including API standards, event-driven patterns, shared integration services, and third-party integration frameworks.
- Define API contracts, integration patterns, onboarding standards, and shared integration infrastructure for product teams.
- Make architecture and technology decisions across multiple teams and product areas, including build-versus-buy evaluations.
- Design, implement, and maintain integration services, APIs, shared libraries, and developer tooling.
- Lead technical due diligence, design reviews, code reviews, and architecture reviews for cross-product and external-partner integrations.
- Establish platform standards, governance processes, RFCs, ADRs, runbooks, onboarding guides, API documentation, and a shared integration knowledge base.
- Develop deep knowledge of MeridianLink’s product ecosystem, including LOS, Account Opening, TazWorks, and partner-system integrations.
- Provide day-to-day technical direction without formal management authority and drive ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems to resolution.
- Validate and improve AI-assisted development practices for the integrations domain.
- Mentor Senior engineers toward Staff-level scope and partner with Engineering Managers and Product leadership on technical and delivery decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas.
- Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale.
- Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and building production-grade integration systems, including RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, or enterprise messaging patterns.
- Experience with API gateway technologies and API lifecycle management, including versioning, contracts, and deprecation.
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Python, or C#.
- Experience deploying and operating integration workloads on cloud platforms, with AWS strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Preferred experience with enterprise integration patterns and frameworks at scale across multiple engineering teams.
- Preferred experience in a multi-product fintech or financial services environment spanning regulatory boundaries.
- Preferred experience with API management platforms, governance tooling, and integration standards across multiple engineering teams.
About MeridianLink
MeridianLink builds cloud software for financial institutions to open accounts, originate consumer and mortgage loans, manage collections, and verify data. Its platform is sold to banks, credit unions, and consumer reporting agencies via subscriptions with implementation and managed services. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, MeridianLink is a public company on the NYSE.