Staff Backend Architect, API Platform (Remote)

Quo, Inc.; United States; A distancia; USD 186.000 - 242.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Medical coverage

Monthly lifestyle stipend

Flexible PTO

Descripción de la vacante

Quo, Inc. is seeking a senior API platform leader to own the Connect API and developer experience. You’ll shape long‑term architecture, collaborate with product, partnerships and leadership, and enable every team to ship API features quickly.

You’ll mentor engineers, focus on reliability at scale, and balance speed with clarity. The role is remote‑first across the US, with equity, medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy as part of Quo’s total rewards.

Formación

• Experience building public APIs or developer platforms for paid products.
• Ability to drive cross‑team changes at scale and align stakeholders.
• Experience in growth-stage startups and navigating evolving processes.

Responsabilidades

• Build the system and relationships that let any Quo team add features to the public API quickly.
• Own the long-term architecture for the API platform; roadmap includes Python/TypeScript SDKs.
• Be the technical contact for partnerships, product and leadership on API capabilities and roadmaps.
• Mentor senior engineers through design reviews, PRs, and coaching to raise the bar.
• Keep the platform fast, reliable and observable as traffic grows.

Conocimientos

Public API ownership

Developer platform

SDKs / Webhooks

Cross-team leadership

Real-time systems

Strong communication

Herramientas

Node/TypeScript

Temporal

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes (AWS)

Postgres

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

Datadog

React

iOS

Android

Descripción del empleo

Quo, Inc. is seeking a senior API platform leader to own the Connect API and developer experience. You’ll shape long‑term architecture, collaborate with product, partnerships and leadership, and enable every team to ship API features quickly.

You’ll mentor engineers, focus on reliability at scale, and balance speed with clarity. The role is remote‑first across the US, with equity, medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy as part of Quo’s total rewards.