Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations

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

Position Summary

This is a senior individual contributor and the primary technical authority on the integrations that connect MeridianLink’s products to one another and to the external systems our clients depend on. This role sits within Platform Services and owns integration architecture, API design, and the patterns and standards that engineering teams across Consumer, Portal/Access, and adjacent product lines build against. The right person combines deep technical expertise in integration and API systems with the maturity to operate across teams and drive architectural decisions without formal authority.

Key Competencies

Staff engineers operate across multiple teams or an entire product line. They set technical direction, make architecture and technology decisions that others build against, and raise the engineering floor across the teams they touch. Staff engineers at MeridianLink are active, daily users of AI-assisted development tools, and go further by building the workflows, tooling, and patterns that make those tools more effective for the teams around them.

_ Technical Leadership & Architecture _

• Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area

• Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem

• Drives technical standards and patterns that other engineers can follow without being supervised

• Identifies systemic problems before they become incidents

_ Cross-Team Execution _

• Provides day-to-day technical direction for one or more scrum teams without holding a management title

• Steps into ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems across teams and drives them to resolution, without being asked

• Holds a high bar in code and design review across team boundaries

_ Integration Architecture & API Design _

• Defines integration patterns, API contracts, and data exchange standards used across product lines

• Evaluates build-vs-buy decisions for integration infrastructure, including API gateways, event streaming, and messaging platforms

• Designs resilient, observable integration systems that degrade gracefully and recover predictably

• Drives adoption of shared integration infrastructure and establishes standards for how teams onboard to it

_ Ecosystem & Product Knowledge _

• Develops deep working knowledge of MeridianLink’s product ecosystem, including the data flows, dependencies, and integration points across LOS, Account Opening, TazWorks, and partner systems

• Anticipates how product-level changes cascade across integration surfaces and flags risk before it ships

• Builds relationships with product and engineering stakeholders across Consumer, Portal/Access, and adjacent teams to stay ahead of integration needs

Expected Duties

_ Architectural Leadership _

• Own the reference architecture for the Platform Integrations layer, covering API standards, event-driven patterns, shared integration service design, and third-party integration frameworks

• Lead technical due diligence and design reviews for new integration requirements, particularly those that cross product lines or involve external partners

• Define and document API contracts, integration patterns, and onboarding standards that enable product teams to build on shared integration infrastructure with confidence

• Drive decisions on integration tooling, frameworks, and platforms in partnership with the Platform Foundation and Capabilities teams

_ Hands-On Delivery _

• Contribute directly to implementation of integration services, APIs, and shared libraries used across the engineering organization

• Participate in code review and design review with a high bar, raising quality across the team

• Build and maintain tooling that makes integration development faster and more reliable for other engineers

• Validate and improve AI-assisted development practices within the integrations domain

_ Platform Standards & Governance _

• Author RFCs and ADRs that document integration design decisions with enough clarity and context to remain useful for years

• Establish and maintain a shared integration knowledge base, including runbooks, onboarding guides, and API documentation

• Participate in architecture review for integration-adjacent work happening in product and platform teams, catching design issues before implementation begins

• Contribute to platform governance processes to ensure integration decisions are made through the right channels

_ Collaboration & Growing Others _

• Develop Senior engineers toward Staff-level scope; give them problems and opportunities that stretch them, not just guidance on their current work

• Partner with Engineering Managers and Product leadership to align technical decisions with delivery goals

• Own the design and maintenance of technical knowledge infrastructure, including RFCs, ADRs, runbooks, and onboarding paths, so teams can operate without needing to elevate

Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

_ Required _

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, 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 at least one backend language used in integration and platform contexts (Java, Python, C#, or similar)

• Experience deploying and operating integration workloads on cloud platforms, AWS strongly preferred

• Familiarity with event streaming platforms and asynchronous processing patterns

_ Preferred _

• Experience with enterprise integration patterns and frameworks at scale across multiple engineering teams

• Prior work in a multi-product fintech or financial services environment where integration complexity spans regulatory boundaries

• Experience with API management platforms and governance tooling

• Experience establishing integration standards or governance processes across multiple engineering teams

What Success Looks Like

A successful hire quickly becomes the integration team’s architectural anchor, reducing the number of design decisions that need to elevate while simultaneously raising the quality of the decisions that happen at the team level. Over time, impact is measured in the durability of the integration standards they establish, the engineering hours saved by the tooling and documentation they produce, and the degree to which product teams across the organization trust the integration platform as a reliable foundation.