Staff Software Engineer – Partners & Integrations

Role Overview

• Own the API & Integrations Platform: Define and steward Nliven's external-facing APIs and integration points
• contracts, versioning, authentication and authorization, webhooks and event delivery, idempotency, rate limiting, and observability
• so partners and third-party systems can build on us safely and reliably.
• Drive Architectural Modernization: Actively contribute to the decoupling of our monolithic application, designing and implementing new service-oriented architectures that enable independent deployment and team autonomy.
• Elevate Quality and Reliability: Introduce and champion SRE principles, SLOs, and automated quality gates into our development lifecycle to ensure high system reliability
• quality is the whole team's responsibility, and you help make that real.
• Be a Force Multiplier for the Team: Serve as a senior technical leader and mentor for engineers, setting technical direction through teaching, reviewing, and pairing rather than top-down mandate.
• Lead Third-Party Integrations: Architect and deliver integrations with external partners (payments, CRM, marketing, identity, partner systems), making them reliable and easy for other engineers to build on.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams from discovery onward to develop solutions that align with business objectives and deliver high customer value.
• Lead the technical design and architecture of new features and products, making critical decisions about technology stack, system integrations, and architectural patterns.
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including system designs, API specifications, and architectural diagrams
• with a high bar for external-facing developer documentation.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices and supporting our internal open-source model of code stewardship.
• Develop and enforce coding standards, best practices, and design principles across the engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Eight or more years of full stack software development in a SaaS or technology-driven environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating external-facing APIs and/or an integrations platform
• including API contracts, versioning, authentication, and webhooks.
• Strong back-end experience (.NET Core).
• Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (Angular, React, or Vue), with strong front end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
• Deep understanding of SQL databases and data modeling best practices.
• Familiarity with Agile framework and methodologies.
• A comprehensive understanding of computer science concepts.

Tech Stack

• Angular
• JavaScript
• React
• SQL
• Vue.js
• .NET

Benefits

• 100% of premium paid for medical, dental and vision benefits for employee and dependents, with an HSA-eligible option (with a $1,000 employer contribution for 2026)
• Company-paid life insurance
• Traditional and Roth 401k plans
• Paid parental leave
• Learning & development opportunities with company reimbursement for eligible educational expenses
• Working abroad opportunities
• Volunteer days off
• Flexible scheduling
• Up to $300 reimbursement for initial equipment to set up hybrid work environment
• Generous PTO and holiday schedule