API Platform Engineer: Build Reusable, Secure Services

BGBx; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plans

Paid leave and holidays

Wellness support

Life insurance

Learning opportunities

Job summary

BGBx is seeking an API/Backend Engineer to help build and evolve a shared API platform used by multiple products. You will design APIs, create reusable services for business logic, data access and analytics, and define strong authentication and access controls across consumers.

You will collaborate with product and application teams to shape capabilities, including AI-related use cases, with an emphasis on security, performance, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Three to five years building production APIs and backend services.
• Strong experience in Python or TypeScript.
• Understanding of API design, including REST/GraphQL, and production auth.
• Experience building services used across multiple applications/teams.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, and security fundamentals.
• Ability to explain trade-offs across application and platform boundaries.
• Familiarity with modern data access or semantic-layer technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain APIs used by multiple applications and consumers.
• Develop reusable platform services for business logic, data access and analytics.
• Define authentication, authorization and access controls for different consumers.
• Establish standards for API contracts, errors, versioning, reliability and security.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production services to improve performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product and application teams to support AI use cases.

Skills

API design

Backend development

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Postman

Job description

BGBx is seeking an API/Backend Engineer to help build and evolve a shared API platform used by multiple products. You will design APIs, create reusable services for business logic, data access and analytics, and define strong authentication and access controls across consumers.

You will collaborate with product and application teams to shape capabilities, including AI-related use cases, with an emphasis on security, performance, and maintainability.