Job description: 

Responsibilities:

* Define and maintain the API design principles, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reusability across all squads. Act as the primary decision-maker for technical direction regarding API strategy, versioning, security, and governance.

* Lead and collaborate with multiple engineering squads to coordinate efforts on shared APIs and service interfaces. Facilitate technical alignment by leading joint design sessions, architecture forums, and sprint planning discussions. translate functional models into detailed technical specifications and architecture.

* Lead the end-to-end design of APIs—from high-level interface definition to low-level implementation. Ensure all APIs are modeled according to business domain needs while maintaining loose coupling and high cohesion.

* Establish and enforce API design standards across squads (naming conventions, error handling, logging, throttling, pagination, etc.). Promote use of OpenAPI/Swagger specifications for clear documentation and discoverability.

* Provide reusable components, shared libraries, and standardized templates to streamline API development across squads. Drive adoption of tools for testing (e.g., Postman, Swagger UI), linting, and static code analysis.

* Review API designs and implementations to ensure adherence to security, performance, and maintainability standards. Conduct architectural reviews.

* Mentor engineers across squads on effective API design, SOLID principles, and emerging patterns such as API Gateway, BFF (Backend for Frontend), and event-driven interactions.

* Lead the integration of APIs with external systems and internal services, ensuring clear contracts and minimal coupling. Provide guidance on backward compatibility, deprecation strategies, and rollout planning.

* Responsible for code analysis, review and refactor to optimize functioning code and review team’s deliverables and resolving technical and functional issues faced by team members across domains.