APIIntegrations Lead

Position Summary

What will your job entail

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of RESTful APIs and integration services.
• Own API specifications (Open API/Swagger) and enforce standards across teams.
• Provide technical leadership code reviews and mentoring to offshore developers.
• Configure and manage the API platform (Azure API Management) security policies traffic management versioning.
• Integrate APIs with backend systems cloud services and third-party platforms.
• Drive CI/CD automation and DevOps practices.
• Serve as the onshore escalation point for production incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 8 years in software/integration engineering; 3 years in a lead or senior API/integration role.
• Enterprise-scale environments with production SLA ownership.
• Leading and coordinating offshore delivery teams.

Technical Skills

• Hands-on or Python and Azure services (Functions API Management).
• Strong grasp of RESTful design API versioning and integration patterns (event-driven messaging).
• Solid knowledge of OAuth2 / OpenID Connect authentication and JSON/XML data formats.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL backends CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling for distributed systems.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into APIs (RAG prompt design guardrails).
• Experience with MCPs and other AI native technologies will be a huge plus.
• Mandatory: hands-on experience with Claude Code Codex or something similar.

Professional Skills

• Strong technical leadership with an ownership mindset.
• Clear communicator with solid stakeholder management.
• Comfortable working independently and making sound technical decisions.
• Collaborative across cross-functional teams.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science IT Engineering or related field (required).
• Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science AI or related discipline (preferred).

• *****Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time*****

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Ryan Specialty seeks to offer our employees a comprehensive and best-in-class benefits package that helps them and their family members achieve their physical financial and emotional well-being addition to paid time off for company holidays vacation sick and personal days Ryan offers paid parental leave mental health services and more.

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