Senior API Platform Engineer — Build Scalable, AI-Ready APIs

Social Leverage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nayya in New York is building the API Platform team that designs, builds, and operates the APIs and services powering our products, partner integrations, and AI agents.

You will own services end-to-end from architecture to deployment, mentor engineers, set API standards and observability, and partner with security to keep HIPAA compliance while delivering reliable, scalable experiences.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend services and APIs.
• Deep expertise in API design (REST, GraphQL, or gRPC) and distributed systems.
• Strong production experience with Python / Go / Node / Typescript / Ruby on Rails on AWS.
• A point of view on what makes an API or tool good for an AI agent to use.
• Track record of leading projects that span multiple teams and mentoring engineers.
• Comfortable owning operational quality observability, on-call, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; you can explain a technical decision to engineers, PMs, and partners equally well.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the APIs and services that power Nayya's products, partner integrations, and AI agents
• Make our platform genuinely great for agents to consume, clear schemas, predictable behavior, strong guardrails, idempotency, and the observability needed to debug non-deterministic callers
• Define Nayya's agent-facing infrastructure: tool definitions, MCP-style protocols, agent authentication and authorization, action auditing, and safety controls
• Own services end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and on-call
• Improve the developer experience for internal teams, external partners, and the AI engineers building on top of the platform
• Set technical direction for the API Platform: API standards, versioning, authentication, rate limiting, and observability
• Mentor engineers across the company, raise the bar on design reviews, and help shape engineering culture
• Partner closely with security and infrastructure to keep us fast, reliable, and HIPAA-compliant

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

REST

GraphQL

gRPC

Python

Go

Node

TypeScript

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Mentoring

On-call

Observability

Security

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

LangChain

Job description

Nayya in New York is building the API Platform team that designs, builds, and operates the APIs and services powering our products, partner integrations, and AI agents.

You will own services end-to-end from architecture to deployment, mentor engineers, set API standards and observability, and partner with security to keep HIPAA compliance while delivering reliable, scalable experiences.