Staff Backend Engineer, Connect (API Platform)
Core
Architect and lead the Connect API platform, enabling 120,000+ companies to integrate calls, texts, and customer data via public APIs, MCP, OAuth, and webhooks.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (API Platform)
Builds
Public API platform, SDKs, and integrations for a billion daily requests
Domain
Telecom / SaaS / Developer Platform
Required skills
Staff-level engineering leadership, public API design, SDK development, event-driven microservices, cross-team architecture, infrastructure ownership, mentorship
Preferred skills
Experience with Series B growth stages, building dev tooling, Go/Python/Java background
Technologies
Node, TypeScript, Temporal, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Datadog
Responsibilities
Define long-term API architecture, mentor senior engineers, act as technical point of contact for partnerships and product, ensure platform reliability and observability, enable rapid feature delivery for internal teams
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC
