Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations

MeridianLink is a company focused on providing integration solutions, and they are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for Platform Integrations. This role involves being the primary technical authority on integrations, overseeing integration architecture, API design, and driving technical decisions across multiple teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 escalate

Requirements:

• 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
• 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