MeridianLink
Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations
US Remote · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
PythonJavaC#Code ReviewAWSCloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentRESTAgileLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem
- Identifies systemic problems before they become incidents
- This is a senior individual contributor and the primary technical authority on the integrations that connect MeridianLink's products to one another and to the external systems our clients depend on.
Responsibilities
- Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area
- This role sits within Platform Services and owns integration architecture, API design, and the patterns and standards that engineering teams across Consumer, Portal/Access, and adjacent product lines build against.
- The right person combines deep technical expertise in integration and API systems with the maturity to operate across teams and drive architectural decisions without formal authority.
- They set technical direction, make architecture and technology decisions that others build against, and raise the engineering floor across the teams they touch.
- Holds a high bar in code and design review across team boundaries
- Evaluates build-vs-buy decisions for integration infrastructure, including API gateways, event streaming, and messaging platforms
- Lead technical due diligence and design reviews for new integration requirements, particularly those that cross product lines or involve external partners
- Define and document API contracts, integration patterns, and onboarding standards that enable product teams to build on shared integration infrastructure with confidence
- Participate in code review and design review with a high bar, raising quality across the team
- Build and maintain tooling that makes integration development faster and more reliable for other engineers
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns and frameworks at scale across multiple engineering teams
- Prior work in a multi-product fintech or financial services environment where integration complexity spans regulatory boundaries
- Experience with API management platforms and governance tooling
- Experience establishing integration standards or governance processes across multiple engineering teams
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas
- Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale
- Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Experience with API gateway technologies and API lifecycle management, including versioning, contracts, and deprecation
- Strong proficiency in at least one backend language used in integration and platform contexts (Java, Python, C#, or similar)
- Experience deploying and operating integration workloads on cloud platforms, AWS strongly preferred
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms and asynchronous processing patterns
- Contribute directly to implementation of integration services, APIs, and shared libraries used across the engineering organization
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