API Architect
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SafelyYouHealthcare technology
CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADAFull-TimeSenior
Salary$190-210k base USD / $180-200k base CDN depending on experience, plus a bonus plan, stock options and benefits.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience in software, backend, or platform engineering
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonKafkaKubernetesCI/CDRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bring 7+ years of professional experience in software, backend, or platform engineering.
- Have deep expertise designing, building, operating, and scaling RESTful APIs, web services, and distributed backend systems.
- Have experience designing and implementing API gateways and management systems such as Kong Hybrid, Apigee, or Gravitee.
- Demonstrate strong Python programming proficiency and the ability to write clean, scalable, maintainable backend code.
- Have experience with streaming data architectures and technologies such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Spark Streaming.
- Understand architectural and cost trade-offs among batch, streaming, and synchronous processing.
- Understand cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and light DevOps practices, including containerization and deployment tools such as Kubernetes and Helm.
- Have experience managing CI/CD pipelines and improving developer environments.
- Have a track record of writing Architecture Decision Records, API specifications, and architectural documentation.
- Ideally, have hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, including coding agents, MCP, AI pair programming, or LLM-powered research.
- Advanced Terraform proficiency is an asset.
- Data modeling, ETL/ELT, warehouses, lakehouses, event-driven systems, and data governance experience are assets.
- Experience with electronic health records, HL7, FHIR, and HIPAA is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable APIs, microservices, and backend platform infrastructure using Python and AWS.
- Own the architecture and lifecycle of the External Data API connecting internal data systems with customers.
- Evolve data governance tooling, including registries and data dictionaries, and establish practices for schema governance, versioning, documentation, and compatibility.
- Support internal APIs by providing documentation and implementation examples, and promote adoption of best practices.
- Architect streaming data pipelines and lead the transition from batch processing to real-time data streaming.
- Draft and maintain Architecture Decision Records, API specifications, and system documentation.
- Improve developer workflows by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, repository documentation, and engineering practices.
- Develop AI skills for third parties interacting with SafelyYou APIs and data products, and introduce AI agent workflows for engineering.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical strategy, product launches, and cross-team initiatives.
- Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations for critical services.
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