API Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: API Architect

• Focus: API design vision, governance, standards, and scalability

Description

You will serve as the technical point of reference for API design and governance, setting the vision, principles, and best practices. Your mission is to ensure consistency, high quality, and scalability by defining architecture strategy, standards, and measurable success metrics.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture strategy and standards for REST, gRPC, GraphQL, versioning, security (OAuth 2.0 / OIDC), observability, and SLAs

• Create style guides, templates, and linters for consistent microservice API development

• Advise product and engineering teams across the API lifecycle (discovery, API-first design, reviews, deployment, deprecation)

• Lead design-review boards (ADRs) and architecture committees

• Promote best practices through workshops, living documentation, and pair-design sessions

• Select and govern the API-management platform (e.g., Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway) and contract tooling (OpenAPI / Swagger)

• Define success metrics and dashboards for API quality, reliability, and usage

• Research trends (AsyncAPI, API monetization, event-driven patterns) and translate them into technical roadmaps

Requirements

• 8+ years designing and building large-scale APIs; 3+ years as an architect or tech lead

• Expert in contract-first design with OpenAPI 3.x and JSON Schema

• Proficiency in Python, Java, and Go (able to read, review, and propose patterns in all three)

• Deep knowledge of microservices, Kubernetes, and service meshes (Istio / Linkerd)

• Experience with Git-based CI/CD, contract testing (Prism, Dredd), and load testing (k6, Gatling)

Benefits

• Flexible remote work

• B2B contract

• Potential to use a coworking space in Cracow

• Private medical care package and Multisport card

• Quarterly integration events

• Positive team culture focused on commitment, relationships, mutual respect, and good humor