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Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Platform, Python
4 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $133.1k - $239.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Description
• Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer that can excel in a non-traditional, agile environment leading the way in the Cloud and Big Data analytics ecosystem.
• Data is the currency in today's world, and in this role, you will be at the forefront of a digital transformation.
• We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership for our real-time API platform , which powers mission-critical, high-throughput services across our ecosystem.
• As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will report to the Software Development Director and operate as a hands-on technical leader, influencing architecture and implementation across multiple teams.
• You'll guide important decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure the platform meets demanding Service Level Agreements for latency, reliability, and throughput.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture Architect and evolve our real-time API platform for scalability, low-latency, and high availability (4–5 9s uptime).
• Cross-Team Collaboration Partner with engineering managers, staff engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to align technical execution with our priorities.
• Define and promote best practices for API design, versioning, patterns, and developer experience.
• Execution & Influence Bring complex projects from concept to production, influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Operational Excellence Lead the reliability, scalability, and performance of real-time APIs and associated platform services.
• Work with SREs and DevOps to improve observability, incident response, and system tuning.

🎯 Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems and API design
• Experience designing and operating real-time, low-latency API platforms at scale
• Experience with protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets), caching, load balancing, and API security
• Experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Java, Rust, or Node.js).
• Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python)
• AWS and Python experience
• Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
• DevOps Knowledge: Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team

🏖️ Benefits
• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays
• Explore all our exciting benefits here: https://yourexperianbenefits.com/cand-index.html