Senior Platform Integration Engineer (APIs & SDKs)

Forterra; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Healthcare Benefits

PTO

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) retirement

Job summary

Forterra is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on Fabric integrations and developer-facing APIs. You will work across autonomy, command-and-control, networking, web applications, and vehicle software to deliver reliable integrations.

This hands-on role requires ownership, strong API design, and the ability to translate real-world requirements into robust software across distributed systems. You will influence platform evolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software.
• Strong experience designing and implementing APIs, integrations, backend services, or developer platforms.
• Proficiency in one of C++, Rust, Go, Python, Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript.
• Experience with API and interface technologies such as gRPC, REST, GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, or similar.
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including service communication, replication, consistency, failure handling, concurrency, and recovery.
• Experience with data models, serialization formats, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.
• Strong testing fundamentals, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience developing and debugging software in Linux-based environments.
• Ability to work with partner teams or customers to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Proven ability to take technical projects from concept through production.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build APIs, SDKs, adapters, and integration tools for Fabric.
• Define interfaces for registering, discovering, querying, subscribing to, and replicating data.
• Build integrations between Fabric and autonomy, command-and-control, vehicle platforms, and partner software.
• Develop and maintain APIs using gRPC, REST, Protocol Buffers, or similar.
• Establish patterns for schema evolution, versioning, authentication, and error handling.
• Translate real-world integration requirements into practical designs and production-ready implementations.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external integrators to troubleshoot issues and close capability gaps.
• Build testable, observable services for distributed and intermittently connected environments.
• Create integration examples, reference implementations, and developer documentation?
• Improve tooling for local development and deployment.
• Collaborate with platform, autonomy, networking, TerraLink, ATAK, web, and product teams for consistent patterns.
• Contribute to Fabric's technical roadmap, architecture, and long-term strategy.
• Participate in design reviews and communicate decisions clearly to engineering and integration audiences.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Linux development

gRPC/REST

C++

Rust

Go

Python

Java

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

CMake

Conan

Bazel

Cargo

Job description

Forterra is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on Fabric integrations and developer-facing APIs. You will work across autonomy, command-and-control, networking, web applications, and vehicle software to deliver reliable integrations.

This hands-on role requires ownership, strong API design, and the ability to translate real-world requirements into robust software across distributed systems. You will influence platform evolution.