Technical Lead, API & Platform Engineering

Private Advertiser; Philippines; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser is seeking a Technical Lead for API Engineering & Platform Integration to guide design, development, and integration of our core API ecosystem while mentoring a team of engineers and analysts.

You will champion best practices, ensure reliability, observability, and scalable backend solutions, and collaborate with product owners and architects to deliver business value across cloud-based platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team while promoting collaboration and engineering best practices.
• Work closely with Product Owners to refine user stories and priorities, and partner with Solution Architects to design robust technical solutions.
• Manage and deliver multiple concurrent projects, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps, timelines, and business objectives.
• Design, review, and implement secure, scalable RESTful APIs and microservices-based architectures.
• Lead complex backend and third-party integrations, including secure financial message transformation and optimized transaction routing.
• Drive continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure, enabling efficient platform adoption while maintaining performance, scalability, and code quality.
• Establish and maintain Git branching strategies, code promotion processes, and development standards.
• Enforce clean development practices, including atomic commits, conventional commit messages, pre-commit validation, formatting, linting, and secret scanning.
• Define pull request governance with mandatory peer reviews, automated security and quality checks, architecture validation, and successful integration testing before merge.
• Oversee post-merge automation, including deployment to staging and UAT environments, artifact versioning, smoke testing, and deployment monitoring.
• Serve as the highest technical escalation point for diagnosing and resolving critical production issues.
• Ensure comprehensive deployment validation through sanity and integration testing across environments before production releases.
• Champion system reliability, observability, and proactive monitoring by implementing automated health checks, error detection, and incident management practices.

Job description

Private Advertiser is seeking a Technical Lead for API Engineering & Platform Integration to guide design, development, and integration of our core API ecosystem while mentoring a team of engineers and analysts.

You will champion best practices, ensure reliability, observability, and scalable backend solutions, and collaborate with product owners and architects to deliver business value across cloud-based platforms.