API Developer Lead

Position: API Developer Lead

Location: Cincinnati, OH – Onsite Hybrid

Long Term Contract

Role Description

• The Lead API Developer designs and delivers scalable APIs that enable secure, reliable integration between applications, services, and external consumers.
• This role provides technical leadership across design, implementation, testing, and production support, partnering with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to ensure release readiness and operational stability.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining REST APIs, including API design standards, versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility practices.
• Deep experience with authentication and authorization patterns (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), secure coding practices, and data protection considerations.
• Proficiency in Cypher, Gremlin, or similar graph query languages.
• Experience with integration patterns and resiliency (idempotency, retries, rate limiting, circuit breakers), along with strong observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Proven technical leadership skills, including solution design, code reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices within an agile team.

Thanks & Regards,

Sanju

TekLeaders Inc

5151 Headquarters Dr. Suite 105

Plano TX 75024

Email: [email protected]

www.tekleaders.com