Senior Integrations & API Engineer

ASPCA • New York, NY

2d • $137,000 - $142,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Integrations & API Engineer designs, builds, tests, and maintains integrations and APIs connecting the ASPCA’s core business and data systems. This senior individual-contributor role also establishes and owns the enterprise integration discipline: setting standards for design, review, documentation, refresh, and retirement; maintaining an integration catalog; and developing reusable patterns that make delivery consistent, secure, and maintainable. The engineer serves as an integration subject-matter expert and central point of ownership and escalation, recommending technical approaches in partnership with internal technology stakeholders.

The role works across platforms such as CRM, PaaS, data warehouse, master data management, content management, and IT service management systems. It includes transitioning legacy data feeds to standardized approaches, maintaining source-control and development standards, embedding security reviews, and aligning changes with the organization’s change enablement practice. The engineer also coordinates with internal teams and approved external partners, supports low-code automations and intermediate systems, and evaluates emerging integration approaches, including secure access patterns for AI tools and enterprise data.

This is a hybrid/remote-based position open to eligible candidates in the United States. Travel of up to 5% annually may be required. The role participates in the existing IT on-call rotation and must be available for off-hours support of critical integrations. It reports directly to the VP, Technology Services and has no direct reports.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing, building, and testing system integrations and APIs, including web services, REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used for integration work, such as Python, JavaScript, .NET, or Java, and scripting in Windows and Linux environments.
• Experience integrating enterprise business and data platforms, such as CRM, data warehouse, and MDM systems.
• Experience with API design and documentation standards such as OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Understanding of integration security practices, including API scanning, access control, and secure data exchange.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and the discipline to review and validate their output.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 7 years of hands-on experience in software development and systems integration, building and testing APIs and integrations across multiple platforms.
• Ability to translate complex technical options into clear recommendations for architects and stakeholders.
• Ability to take accountability for owned integrations and the integration practice and deliver without close oversight.
• Ability to gather information, make sound technical decisions, and act decisively in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to establish standards where none exist, make reversible decisions efficiently, and approach irreversible decisions carefully.
• Ability to design documented, recoverable, maintainable solutions and surface risks, technical debt, and delivery constraints early.
• Ability to seek and act on feedback, communicate clearly orally and in writing, and produce technical documentation that stands on its own.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, vendors, and partners.
• Ability to set standards others can follow and mentor and develop future team members.
• Ability to balance competing initiatives, manage delivery and support work, and adapt to changing business and technical requirements.
• Ability to learn and support new technologies quickly.
• Ability to cultivate a climate in which individual differences and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and supported.
• Ability to exemplify ASPCA core values and behavioral competencies.
• English language proficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, or messaging and pub/sub patterns using Kafka or an equivalent.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML.
• Familiarity with enterprise service bus and Azure Integration Services (AIS).
• Experience with cloud integration and automation services.
• Experience with API management, testing, and related tooling, including automated testing frameworks and orchestration.
• Familiarity with data transformation and ETL/ELT tooling such as Azure Data Factory.
• Familiarity with file-based and batch integration, including SFTP, flat-file/CSV exchange, and EDI.
• Familiarity with source control and repository management.
• Familiarity with containers and serverless hosting patterns for integration logic, such as Azure Functions or equivalent.
• Experience establishing integration standards, documentation, or reusable patterns and bringing structure and governance to technical delivery.
• Experience acting as a technical liaison across security, data, and vendor teams.
• Experience mentoring or setting standards for other engineers, with potential to lead a small team as the function grows.
• Experience in a nonprofit, healthcare, or other mission-driven, multi-site operating environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain integrations and APIs connecting the ASPCA’s core business and data systems.
• Build, validate, and thoroughly test connections to internal and external APIs for reliability, performance, and data integrity.
• Develop integration solutions in-house to build durable internal capability and support consistent, well-documented delivery.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to support coding and documentation, validating their output with sound engineering judgment and attention to security.
• Transition legacy and unsupported data feeds to supported, standardized integration patterns.
• Maintain source-control repositories and development standards so integration code and configuration are recoverable, auditable, and maintainable.
• Participate in the IT on-call rotation and respond to critical incidents outside business hours.
• Establish and own the integration discipline, defining enterprise-wide practices for designing, reviewing, documenting, refreshing, and retiring integrations.
• Maintain a living catalog of integrations and APIs with clear ownership and defined review and refresh schedules.
• Define documentation standards and reusable integration patterns.
• Serve as a recognized point of ownership and escalation for integration and API issues across IT.
• Embed security reviews in the integration lifecycle in partnership with the information security team, including API scanning, access control, and compliance.
• Align integration delivery with change enablement practices, including Change Advisory Board submissions and standards for change types, testing evidence, and rollback expectations.
• Act as a technical liaison for connections between internal platforms and approved external partners and third-party services.
• Coordinate with information security, data, infrastructure, web, other internal technologists, and external vendors to align integration work with enterprise standards.
• Provide subject-matter expertise and recommendations to inform integration architecture decisions.
• Support the data team’s access to enterprise data and enable secure connectivity between data sources and consuming systems.
• Partner with internal teams to develop automations and workflows on low-code automation platforms.
• Provide configuration and integration support for intermediate systems such as OCR document-processing solutions and data lake-house environments.
• Evaluate and pilot emerging integration approaches, including secure direct-access patterns between AI tooling and enterprise data and content systems.
• Support teams in establishing well-structured, production-ready integrations in test environments from the outset.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Affordable health coverage, including medical, employer-paid dental, and optional vision coverage.
• Flexible time off, including vacation time, paid personal time, sick time, bereavement time, paid parental leave, and 10 company-paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar employer matching up to 4%, plus an additional 4% employer contribution each year.
• Professional development opportunities, including classes, on-the-job training, coaching and mentorship, internal mobility, and opportunities to support work in the field.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior