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Photon

API Lead

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$56.75 - $74.25/hr

We are hiring API Lead - to join our Digital Engineering team. Who are we? For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few ...

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API Lead

Photon

Atlanta, GA • On-site

$56.75 - $74.25/hr

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Job description

Greetings From Photon,

We hope you are good! We are hiring API Lead - to join our Digital Engineering team.

Who are we?

For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check

API Lead | Atlanta, GA | Open for Fulltime or Contract

Job Summary:

Photon is seeking an experienced API Lead to design, develop, and lead the delivery of scalable, cloud-native APIs and backend services for large-scale digital commerce, loyalty, and customer engagement platforms within the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) domain.

This role focuses on building high-performance APIs, event-driven systems, and microservices using Node.js, NestJS, and Express.js. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, API governance, and leading engineering teams in delivering resilient and scalable solutions across web and mobile platforms.

What will you do?

API & Backend Leadership

  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade APIs using NestJS and Express.js.
  • Define and enforce API standards, best practices, versioning strategies, and governance models.
  • Architect scalable and reusable backend services supporting digital ordering, loyalty, identity, payments, and customer engagement platforms.
  • Mentor and guide development teams through code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture reviews.
  • Collaborate with architects and product teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture

  • Design and implement microservices-based architectures for high-volume, customer-facing applications.
  • Build and maintain event-driven systems using messaging, pub-sub, and asynchronous communication patterns.
  • Define strategies for event modeling, service orchestration, and distributed transaction management.
  • Ensure services support resiliency patterns including retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
  • Drive architecture decisions related to scalability, performance, and system reliability.

Cloud-Native Engineering

  • Design and deploy cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Leverage cloud services for compute, messaging, API management, storage, and monitoring.
  • Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments.
  • Ensure backend systems meet enterprise standards for security, availability, scalability, and compliance.

Data & Integration

  • Design and implement efficient data models for transactional and event-driven workloads.
  • Work with both SQL and NoSQL databases to support high-throughput applications.
  • Integrate with internal and external platforms through REST APIs, event streams, and third-party services.
  • Optimize data access patterns and service interactions for performance and reliability.

Quality, Security & Observability

  • Establish engineering best practices for testing, code quality, and deployment readiness.
  • Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting strategies for production systems.
  • Ensure secure API design through authentication, authorization, encryption, and industry-standard security practices.
  • Drive adoption of observability and operational excellence across backend services.

Collaboration & Delivery

  • Lead technical planning, estimation, and execution in Agile environments.
  • Collaborate with product owners, architects, frontend teams, QA, and platform engineering teams.
  • Support technical roadmaps and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Act as a technical leader for backend and API engineering efforts across multiple projects.

What are we looking for?

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend development expertise.
  • 3+ years of experience leading API and backend engineering teams.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, NestJS, and Express.js.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing Microservices Architecture.
  • Strong experience building and supporting Event-Driven Architectures.
  • Deep understanding of REST API design, API security, and API lifecycle management.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing, messaging systems, and distributed system patterns.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and Agile development methodologies.
  • Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and performance optimization techniques

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