Staff Software Engineer, API Development

🕒 July 15

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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One Identity

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501 - 1000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $3M Venture Round on 2004-07

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

One Identity is a company that specializes in identity and access management solutions, focusing on protecting digital identities and simplifying user access across organizations. They offer a comprehensive suite of products designed to secure privileged access, govern user identities, and streamline compliance with regulations through automation. Their platform integrates AI-driven insights to enhance security and operational efficiency, supporting both on-premises and cloud environments.

📋 Description

• Standardize API development through tooling and automation so the right approach is the default • Define and evolve API standards (OpenAPI), and enforce through tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows (not manual review processes) • Build and maintain systems that auto-generate, validate, and enforce API specifications (contracts, schemas, validation) • Integrate AI into API development workflows to improve specification quality, consistency enforcement, and documentation accuracy • Reduce bespoke implementations by providing shared patterns, libraries, and templates for API development • Improve API consistency, discoverability, and usability across services • Enable faster internal and partner integrations through well-defined, reliable, and documented APIs • Partner with engineering teams to migrate legacy or inconsistent APIs toward standardized patterns • Make standardized patterns easy to adopt through strong defaults, documentation, and developer tooling • Build shared libraries, SDKs, and tooling that teams use directly when developing APIs

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production systems, reliability, or operational improvements. • Strong backend development experience (Ruby, Node.js, or similar). • Solid understanding of REST APIs, service contracts, API design, and software design principles. • Experience designing and maintaining scalable, consistent, and maintainable APIs in production environments. • Experience working across backend services, APIs, and production systems. • Experience building and operating services in AWS or similar cloud environments. • Good understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and CI/CD. • Willingness to participate in a mandatory 24/7 on-call rotation. • Experience using, or strong interest in, AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor).

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities