Staff Platform Engineer – Platform Integrations

Responsibilities

• Makes critical architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams or an entire product area
• Evaluates technology choices with a clear view of trade-offs at scale, not just for the immediate problem
• Drives technical standards and patterns that other engineers can follow without being supervised
• Identifies systemic problems before they become incidents
• Provides day-to-day technical direction for one or more scrum teams without holding a management title
• Steps into ambiguous, high‑stakes technical problems across teams and drives them to resolution, without being asked
• Holds a high bar in code and design review across team boundaries
• Defines integration patterns, API contracts, and data exchange standards used across product lines
• Evaluates build‑vs‑buy decisions for integration infrastructure, including API gateways, event streaming, and messaging platforms
• Designs resilient, observable integration systems that degrade gracefully and recover predictably
• Drives adoption of shared integration infrastructure and establishes standards for how teams onboard to it
• Develops deep working knowledge of Meridian Link’s product ecosystem, including the data flows, dependencies, and integration points across LOS, Account Opening, Taz Works, and partner systems
• Anticipates how product‑level changes cascade across integration surfaces and flags risk before it ships
• Builds relationships with product and engineering stakeholders across Consumer, Portal/Access, and adjacent teams to stay ahead of integration needs
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 escape

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#)
• 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
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