Senior API Architect & AI-Driven Backend Lead

Educology Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Educology Solutions is seeking a senior Lead API Software Engineer to serve as the hands-on engineering lead for enterprise API delivery. You will own technical direction, oversee API contracts, and ensure secure, reliable, reusable API products across teams.

The role emphasizes contract-first API design, strong Azure API Management governance, and building observable, production-ready APIs with robust testing and automation. Collaboration with security, DevOps, and product teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience
• 5+ years API/integration engineering
• Hands-on with C#/.NET
• Azure API Management experience
• Contract-first API design using OpenAPI/Swagger
• CI/CD with automated testing
• Observability and monitoring
• Security and data protection

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support production APIs
• Lead API contract from business capability to implementation
• Enforce contract-first API practices with OpenAPI specifications
• Govern Azure API Management: policies, products, subscriptions
• Conduct code and design reviews; address security and reliability risks
• Build automated quality into CI/CD with tests and gates
• Implement observability: logs, traces, metrics, runbooks
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership
• Collaborate with architecture, security, DevOps, data, and product partners

Skills

C#/.NET

API design

Azure

Leadership

OpenAPI/Swagger

CI/CD

Security

Observability

REST APIs

OAuth/OIDC

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Educology Solutions is seeking a senior Lead API Software Engineer to serve as the hands-on engineering lead for enterprise API delivery. You will own technical direction, oversee API contracts, and ensure secure, reliable, reusable API products across teams.

The role emphasizes contract-first API design, strong Azure API Management governance, and building observable, production-ready APIs with robust testing and automation. Collaboration with security, DevOps, and product teams is essential.