Principal API Design Engineer, commercetools

• A technical background with a proven track record as an individual contributor (5+ years)
• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership or architect role
• Experience working on API Design, ideally for multi-tenant SaaS products
• Experience with UX Research and Design techniques, and applying them to APIs
• Project management, especially for projects affecting multiple teams
• Experience setting up and running trainings and onboardings
• Fluent English verbal and written communication to work in an international environment
• Ability to live up to commercetools’ defined leadership values
• Great self-assessment mastery
• Experience working within an Agile environment with focus on the customer view
• Mentality to share and the aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn about leadership, new technologies and concepts

Desirable

• Own the API Design guidelines for commercetools services
• Define a common subset of meta features (e.g. Authentication)
• Enable (new) teams to build APIs that are consistent with our existing services
• Help designing new API features that impact the developer experience, including user research
• Identify learning needs/skills gaps, and facilitate related technology knowledge sharing across the organization with the help of our internal knowledgement team
• Lead communication within the organization on long running initiatives to improve or unify the API Design, and make sure they get adopted successfully
• Closely collaborate with the Head Of Product and Staff Engineers of the Experience & Extensibility group
• You evolve our tech vision and promote it within the company