Position: Head of API Development
Company: PDFfiller
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Who We Are:**
We are a global IT company founded in Boston, USA, back in 2008. Today, the company develops products aimed at business process automation and digital workflow management. airSlate brand portfolio consists of four services:
— airSlate — no-code automation for business processes;
— pdfFiller — online PDF editor;
— signNow — e-signature tool;
— USLegal — the US largest library of legal forms and other documents.

**We are looking for a Head of API Development to work closely with SignNow API.** In addition to providing users with a convenient eSignature application, signNow also offers a comprehensive API that allows developers to seamlessly integrate eSignature workflows with other software products.

**Responsibilities:**
— Provide architectural guidance and expertise for API development projects;
— Work with other stakeholders to creаte API roadmap and support technical vision and strategy;
— Define and implement API reference architectures;
— Monitor implementation activity to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld;
— Help to define API product strategy, analyze customer feedback and bring requirements into the engineering process;
— Work to develop and publish API documentation and other customer-facing materials in line with architectural principles;
— Manage and monitor API Product performance and utilization. Recommend improvements;

**What We Offer:**
**Flexible Work Environment:** Due to the current status of Covid-19, the team is primarily working remotely. However, we are flexible if you prefer to work from home or come to the office to help you be more productive.
**Opportunities for growth are part of our culture:**The company pays for career upgrade courses, conferences for professionals, and English classes with natives speakers.
**We care about your health:** The company covers medical health insurance and Covid-19 insurance. We also provide gym and massage therapists at the office.
**You are not just an employee, you are part of the business:** We provide options contracts that start vesting on Day One. And believe that our success is your success.
**It’s not only about work here, we trust in sport:** We also have regular athletic activities with professional coaches (Football, basketball, etc). And you can join our online Yoga classes.
**We care about your mood:** We deliver lunches and lots of healthy snacks are always waiting for you at the office.

**Requirements:**
— 5+ years of experience as an API architect/lead with hands-on experience leading large-scale API projects used by thousands of customers;
— Architectural leadership in creating strategic products using API first approach;
— Passion for building scalable, secure and performance-based applications;
— Experience with API Gateways and distributed systems;
— Expert level experience with API design standards, patterns, best practices;
— Expert level experience with applying security best practices to API platforms (OAuth, TLS, rate-limits, certificates, keystores, etc.);
— Software development experience, strong understanding of OOP principles;
— Experience with OWASP and secure coding best practices;
— Good level of spoken and written English;