Senior Full Stack API Engineer
About The Position
Questrade Financial Group (QFG) is seeking a Senior Full Stack API Engineer to join their API Platform team. This role is crucial in revolutionizing how Canadians manage their wealth by offering advanced trading platforms and cutting-edge technology. The engineer will be responsible for designing and building the gateway to QFG's entire ecosystem, managing the end-to-end journey for external developers and partners. This includes bridging the gap between frontend user experience (developer portals, SDKs) and backend systems engineering (API gateways, security, routing). The position emphasizes a product-minded approach and a developer-first empathy, aiming to create a frictionless onboarding experience and secure, production-grade integrations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong background in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js).
- Strong background in backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Go, Python, or Java).
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design, GraphQL, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
- Hands-on experience managing APIs via Apigee (or similar API Gateways like Kong/AWS API Gateway).
- Proven experience implementing OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, token management, and custom API Key validation.
- Exposure to or strong interest in Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building integrations optimized for LLMs/AI agents.
- Developer-first empathy with a passion for building clean interfaces.
- Systems-thinking approach to API lifecycle management.
Responsibilities
- Own the frontend and backend of the self-serve Developer Portal, ensuring a frictionless onboarding journey.
- Build realistic API sandbox environments and interactive testing tools.
- Collaborate with Technical Writers and Developer Advocates to generate, maintain, and automate SDKs and interactive API documentation.
- Design, implement, and maintain API proxies and policies using Apigee, ensuring adherence to SaaS API standards.
- Build tooling and workflows for strategic partners to certify their integrations.
- Design and maintain Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and external API surfaces.
- Manage the versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility of public APIs.
- Implement and maintain secure authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, API Keys, and Scopes).
- Collaborate with DevSecOps to implement robust rate-limiting, throttling, and consumer access management policies.
- Work closely with Identity Engineers to ensure developer credentials are secure yet simple to manage.
- Partner closely with DX Engineers, API Product Engineers, Tech Leads, and SecOps to define API specs, ensuring a world-class developer onboarding flow.
Benefits
- Health & wellbeing resources and programs
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages
- Comprehensive benefits plan
- Competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
