Senior Platform Integrations Architect & API Lead

MeridianLink, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MeridianLink is seeking a senior staff engineer to serve as the primary technical authority for integrations across our product lines. You will own integration architecture, API design, and governance, collaborating with Platform Services to drive standards and patterns across Consumer, Portal/Access, and partner systems.

The role requires deep expertise in integration and APIs, cross-team leadership without formal authority, and a track record of delivering scalable, observable integration

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas.
• Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale.
• Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building production-grade integration systems: RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, or enterprise messaging patterns.
• Experience with API gateway technologies and API lifecycle management, including versioning, contracts, and deprecation.
• Strong proficiency in backend languages (Java, Python, C#, or similar).
• Experience deploying and operating integration workloads on AWS.
• Familiarity with event streaming platforms and asynchronous processing patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own the reference architecture for Platform Integrations: API standards, event-driven patterns, shared integration service design, and third-party frameworks.
• Lead technical due diligence and design reviews for new integration requirements across product lines or with external partners.
• Define and document API contracts, integration patterns, and onboarding standards for shared infrastructure.
• Drive decisions on tooling, frameworks, and platforms in partnership with Platform Foundation and Capabilities teams.
• Contribute to implementation of integration services, APIs, and shared libraries used across engineering.
• Participate in code and design reviews to raise quality across teams.
• Build and maintain tooling to speed up integration development and reliability.
• Validate and improve AI-assisted development practices within integrations domain.
• Author RFCs and ADRs documenting design decisions for long-term usefulness.
• Maintain a knowledge base with runbooks and API documentation.
• Participate in architecture reviews to catch issues early and contribute to governance.

Skills

AI-assisted development tools

RESTful APIs

Event-driven architectures

Enterprise messaging patterns

API gateway technologies

API lifecycle management

Backend languages: Java, Python, C#

AWS cloud

Event streaming platforms

Architectural decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

MeridianLink is seeking a senior staff engineer to serve as the primary technical authority for integrations across our product lines. You will own integration architecture, API design, and governance, collaborating with Platform Services to drive standards and patterns across Consumer, Portal/Access, and partner systems.

The role requires deep expertise in integration and APIs, cross-team leadership without formal authority, and a track record of delivering scalable, observable integration