API Platform Practice Lead

World Economic Forum Geneva; Genf; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The World Economic Forum Geneva seeks a Practice Engineer to lead the API platform across product streams, setting standards and remaining hands-on in real engineering work. You will own API design standards (REST/GraphQL/Event‑Driven) and OpenAPI processes, while driving architectural coherence across teams.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will coach engineers, run RFC reviews, and participate in hiring loops.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in API management and large-scale products.
• Experience setting technical standards and leading architecture decisions.
• Deep knowledge of REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and OpenAPI.
• Proficiency in at least one major API/web language.
• Familiar with CI/CD, security and stability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead API platform standards across product streams.
• Coach engineers through office hours, code reviews and RFCs.
• Own deployment processes and CI/CD tooling.
• Collaborate with IT Security, architecture council and product teams.
• Serve as technical-bar interviewer in hiring loops.

Skills

API management

Technical standards

Architecture leadership

REST API design

GraphQL

gRPC

Event-driven design

OpenAPI

Versioning & deprecation

Engineering collaboration

English communication

Education

University-level education in CS/Engineering

Tools

Node.js

Python

Ruby on Rails

Go

Job description

The World Economic Forum Geneva seeks a Practice Engineer to lead the API platform across product streams, setting standards and remaining hands-on in real engineering work. You will own API design standards (REST/GraphQL/Event‑Driven) and OpenAPI processes, while driving architectural coherence across teams.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will coach engineers, run RFC reviews, and participate in hiring loops.