Sr. API Engineer; Google Cloud Platform, API - Nashville , TN; Onsite

Sr. Staff API Engineer (Google Cloud Platform, API)

Nashville, TN

The Senior Staff API Engineer - API serves as a primary development resource for design, writing code, testing, implementation, documenting functionality, and maintaining Next Gen solutions for the Google Cloud Platform cloud enterprise data initiatives. The role requires working closely with data teams frequently in a matrixed environment as part of a broader project team. This role requires self‑starters who are proficient in problem solving and capable of bringing clarity to complex situations.

The culture of the organization places an emphasis on teamwork, so social and interpersonal skills are equally important as technical capability. Due to the emerging and fast‑evolving nature of Google Cloud Platform technology and practice, the position requires that one stays well‑informed of technological advancements and be proficient at putting new innovations into effective practice. In addition, this candidate will have a history of increasing responsibility in a small multi‑role team.

This position requires a candidate who can analyze business requirements, perform design tasks, construct, test, and implement solutions with minimal supervision. This candidate will have a record of accomplishment of participation in successful projects in a fast‑paced, mixed team (consultant and employee) environment. In addition, the applicant must be willing to mentor other developers to prepare them for assuming the responsibilities.

As a Senior Staff API Engineer, you will collaborate closely with all team members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses current needs, but will also serve as a foundation for future success. The position will be critical in building the team’s API engineering practices in test‑driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment and is a hands‑on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems.

Major responsibilities: your deliverables will influence patient care. Every process, technology, and decision matters. This role will provide application development for specific business environments. Focus on setting technical direction on groups of applications and similar technologies as well as taking responsibility for technically robust solutions encompassing all business, architecture, and technology constraints. Work with API engineers, data architects, data scientists, and other internal stakeholders to understand product requirements and then design, build, and monitor data platforms and pipelines that meet today’s requirements but can gracefully scale.

Implement automated workflows that lower manual/operational costs, define and uphold SLAs for timely delivery of data, and move the company closer to democratizing data. Enable a self‑service data architecture supporting query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, and rich data discovery. Promote a collaborative team environment that prioritizes effective communication, team member growth, and success of the team over success of the individual.

Design and create APIs that accelerate the time from idea to insight. Adhere to and support API best practices, processes, and standards. Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates best practices and serves as an example for less experienced engineers. Help promote and support data security best practices that align with industry standards and regulatory and legal requirements. Help mentor team members on complex data projects and following the Agile process.

Help lead data analysis efforts and solution proposals to data related and data architecture problems. Help lead implementation of unit and integration tests and promote and conduct performance testing where appropriate. Be a leader in the data community. Evangelize API engineering best practices and standards, participate, or present at community events, and encourage the continual growth and development of others.

Be curious. Be growth‑minded. Encourage and enable this in others. Demonstrate professional and personal maturity through self‑leadership. Build…