meridianlink - Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Integrations
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 • What Success Looks Like • A successful hire quickly becomes the integration team’s architectural anchor, reducing the number of design decisions that need to escalate 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.
Responsibilities
• 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 escalate • Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Benefits
• $126K – $214.9K • Offers Bonus • MeridianLink runs a comprehensive background check, credit check, and drug test as part of our offer process. • It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the salary range. The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law including geographical location. • t is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the salary range. • Meridianlink offers: • Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability) • Flexible paid time off • 401(k) plan with company match • All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable and as may be amended, terminated, or superseded from time to time. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • If above question is "Other" please add the source below. • I prefer not to answer • Black or African American • Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin • Indigenous Peoples, First Nations, Native American, or Alaska Native • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • White / Caucasian • Middle Eastern or North African • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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