Hatch IT - Sr. Director of Engineering - API

• 10+ years of software engineering experience • Experience operating at Principal Engineer or Staff+ level • Strong hands-on experience building distributed systems • Experience designing and building API-first platforms • Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred) • Experience building developer platforms or service-oriented architectures • Strong system design and architectural thinking skills • Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives • Hands-on work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • Familiarity with Vertex AI Agent Engine • Background in ADK and reasoning frameworks such as LangChain • Understanding of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) • Exposure to data warehouse technologies like BigQuery and Snowflake • Knowledge of Apigee or similar API gateway solutions • Proven ability to design semantic APIs for AI or agent-driven use cases • Experience managing context or building memory systems • Development of agent-based architectures or orchestration frameworks • Exposure to Anti-Gravity • What Success Looks Like: • Assess current API and platform architecture • Define API and MCP platform strategy • Identify early opportunities for standardization • Deliver initial platform frameworks and standards • Begin rollout of semantic API patterns • Establish MCP integration approach • Agent-ready APIs in production • MCP-enabled services deployed • Clear platform standards adopted across teams • Measurable improvement in API consistency and developer velocity • Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...) • Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family! • Retirement Plans: Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match. • Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives. • Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays • Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.