Senior Software Developer – API & Partner Integrations

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer - API & Partner Integration at Datasite, you lead projects, drive technical decisions, and build scalable platform systems with an AI-first mindset. You balance business context, customer impact, and long-term platform health while enabling intelligent, API-driven experiences and partner integrations (e.g., MCP, marketplace, and discovery services).

• Balances business context, customer impact, and long-term platform health
• Builds scalable platform systems with an AI-first mindset
• Drives technical decisions that incorporate AI-enabled capabilities into core platform services and partner integrations
• Partner with Product and leadership to develop flexible roadmaps aligned to Datasite strategy while adapting to fast-evolving AI and partner opportunities
• Drive architectural improvements that scale AI workloads, reduce operational overhead, and improve reliability across APIs and platform services
• Maintain adaptable technical plans, enabling rapid iteration in uncertain, high-velocity environments

How We Work Together

• Strategic Technical Leadership
• Guide technical decisions that incorporate AI-enabled capabilities into core platform services and partner integrations
• Partner with Product and leadership to develop flexible roadmaps aligned to Datasite strategy while adapting to fast-evolving AI and partner opportunities
• Drive architectural improvements that scale AI workloads, reduce operational overhead, and improve reliability across APIs and platform services
• Maintain adaptable technical plans, enabling rapid iteration in uncertain, high-velocity environments

Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence

• Identify and drive cross-platform improvements (Dev Portal, Marketplace, MCP, API standards) that enhance developer and partner experiences
• Drive the evolution of Datasite's Marketplace ecosystem, including partner onboarding, discovery experiences, integration standards, and developer enablement
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and partner teams to deliver AI-first, integration-ready solutions
• Communicate complex concepts clearly, translating AI and platform design trade-offs for diverse stakeholders
• Provide technical guidance that ensures alignment, simplicity, and consistency across teams and integrations

Problem Solving & Overcoming Obstacles

• Evaluate trade-offs across speed, cost, accuracy, and scalability, especially in AI-enabled and partner-driven solutions
• Simplify systems and drive down technical debt while supporting rapid experimentation and delivery
• Own ambiguous challenges, particularly in new partnership integrations and emerging AI use cases, and drive them to resolution
• Apply strong diagnostics to identify root causes and deliver resilient, maintainable solutions

Mentorship & Growth

• Mentor engineers through coaching and feedback, including adoption of modern and AI-assisted development practices
• Support team growth by promoting continuous learning, experimentation, and adaptability
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, and shared ownership
• Help raise the bar in hiring, ensuring alignment with Datasite’s technical and cultural expectations

Ownership & Accountability

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of platform services, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities, including partner integrations
• Build systems with strong observability, resilience, and performance characteristics, especially under variable AI workloads
• Track progress, manage risk, and adapt plans while maintaining a bias for action and high-quality execution
• Ensure new partnerships are delivered with care, reliability, and ingenuity, balancing speed with long-term sustainability

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience building and operating scalable distributed systems and APIs
• Experience or exposure to AI/ML technologies (LLMs, embeddings, automation workflows, etc.)
• Ability to ramp quickly on new technologies and domains, especially in AI and partner ecosystems
• Proven success leading work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and cross-team influence