Staff Software Engineer, Ecosystem

Boulevard

2d•$193,900 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer on Boulevard’s Ecosystem team, you will set the technical direction for Boulevard’s external developer platform and its app and integrations ecosystem, then work across teams to implement that direction. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape the API platform, partner experience, and foundational capabilities such as API security, identity and access, audit trails, and eventing infrastructure. This is an individual-contributor role with broad influence and no people-management responsibilities. You will lead through technical judgment, clear communication, and trust, partnering closely with Engineering, Product Management, Design, Partnerships, and Product Marketing. You will establish platform strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, learn from partners and integrators, and contribute code and high-impact technical work. The role also involves setting standards for quality, observability, and security; mentoring engineers; defining and monitoring API platform health; addressing technical debt; and helping guide incidents through response, resolution, and improvement.

Requirements

Experience as a Staff-level or senior engineer who has led large, cross-team technical initiatives.
Experience building and scaling external-facing API products.
Experience building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs.
Experience designing and operating systems at scale, including enterprise-grade systems.
Strong proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Go, or Elixir.
Ability to influence without authority, exercise sound technical judgment, gain alignment through clear reasoning and trust, and anticipate scale, maintenance, and operational costs.
Business and partner awareness, with clear communication and the ability to connect technical decisions to business priorities and partner needs.
A mentor’s mindset, ownership, and forward thinking, including helping engineers grow, moving work forward amid ambiguity, stating risks openly, and setting long-term direction while delivering short-term value.

Nice To Haves

GraphQL experience.
Elixir experience.
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Responsibilities

Set the technical strategy for Boulevard’s API and app ecosystem, ensuring it supports company goals and partner needs.
Align engineering teams on technical direction and drive implementation without formal authority over those teams.
Lead platform-level changes across team boundaries, gaining agreement, planning rollouts, and seeing work through.
Identify gaps between platform capabilities and business priorities and turn them into clear, scoped, prioritized proposals.
Learn what partners and integrators need and incorporate those needs into the platform roadmap.
Write and review design documents and architecture decisions, explaining trade-offs and risks to technical and non-technical audiences.
Write code and ship high-impact work while setting standards for quality, observability, and security.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and coaching, and remove blockers for teammates.
Define and monitor API platform health metrics and address technical debt before it affects reliability or performance.
Help guide incidents from response through resolution and improvement.

Benefits

Competitive base pay and performance bonus eligibility.
Equity participation for all full-time employees.
Comprehensive medical coverage, with up to 100% employee premium coverage and 75% dependent coverage.
Annual $1,200 HSA employer contribution for eligible plans.
100% covered dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
12 weeks of fully paid U.S. parental leave for all new parents.
Flexible paid time off and 10 U.S. company holidays.
Fully remote work with a $200 home office setup allowance and a $50 monthly work-from-home reimbursement.
$200 quarterly Boulevard Bucks.
One Medical membership.
Employee Assistance Program.