Staff Technical Lead, API Platform & Developer Experience

Asana; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 293,000 - 333,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health benefits

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings or retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking a staff-level Technical Lead to drive execution and technical vision for our developer platform. You will shape API design, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to deliver a scalable, agentic experience for developers and enterprises.

This Vancouver-based, office-centric hybrid role emphasizes leadership across teams, with in-office days on Mon/Tue/Thu and optional WFH on Wed and Fri depending on work. Compensation reflects market value and impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as an engineer working in large, complex codebases.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams of 5+ engineers.
• 1+ years building public-facing API products or Developer Platforms.
• Deep project management experience including high-level timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordinating the work of others.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills.
• Passionate about mentoring engineers at all skill levels; able to identify technical growth opportunities and deliver thoughtful, candid feedback.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical strategy for the API platform within Asana and advocate for engineering-driven investments, with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable.
• Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, enabling the engineers around you to deliver at a high velocity while helping them grow their skills in the process.
• Be a key collaborator with other groups in Engineering and a technical counterpart to the API team’s Engineering Manager, serving as a public face for API engineering and representing our interests across team boundaries.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand developer and agentic needs, and then propose elegant solutions to meet them.
• Own and shape the guidelines for what good API design looks like, partnering with product engineering teams to help them implement those best practices in a self-serve manner.
• Develop across the entire stack to make developers’ experiences better by writing clean, beautiful code and leaving things better than you found them: this includes writing Scala, Javascript, and Typescript.

Skills

Engineering leadership

API design

Public API

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Scala

Javascript

Typescript

Job description

Asana is seeking a staff-level Technical Lead to drive execution and technical vision for our developer platform. You will shape API design, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to deliver a scalable, agentic experience for developers and enterprises.

This Vancouver-based, office-centric hybrid role emphasizes leadership across teams, with in-office days on Mon/Tue/Thu and optional WFH on Wed and Fri depending on work. Compensation reflects market value and impact.