API Lead

API Lead

Responsibilities
Jersey City 

• API Design: Design RESTful, GRPC, and/or event-driven APIs using best practices and industry standards (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger,
• Documentation: Create and maintain clear, comprehensive API documentation and usage guides.
• Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and Architect teams to gather requirements and translate them into API specificatio
• Standards & Governance: Define and enforce API design standards, style guides, and governance processes.
Prototyping: Build API prototypes and mock servers to validate designs and facilitate early feedback.
• Developer Experience: Advocate for and implement features that improve the developer experience, such as versioning, error handlir
• Lifecycle Management: Support the full API lifecycle, including versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA and development teams to ensure APIs are well-tested and meet performance, security, and
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with API trends, tools, and technologies, and drive continuous improvement in API design p

Required Skills & Qualifications

Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 10+ years of applied experience

• Strong understanding of REST, GRPC, and/or event-driven API paradigms

• Proficiency with API specification tools (OpenAPl/Swagger, RAML, AsyncAPI, Postman, etc.)

• Experience with API gateways, management platforms, and developer portals

• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Familiarity with security best practices (OAuth2, JWT, AP keys, etc.)

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS (EKS)
Knowledge of Micro Services & Domain Driven architecture Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated API testing