Quick overview
Job description
You will be leading a newly formed integration team that centralizes to build, maintain and scale critical platform integrations across distributors, insurance partners, and app marketplaces.
As an Integration Team Lead your responsibilities will include:
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Establish, lead, mentor, and scale a newly formed engineering team focused on centralizing 3rd-party integrations and APIs.
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Conduct regular code reviews and architectural discussions, ensuring adherence to security and coding best practices.
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Design, build, and maintain scalable, robust RESTful endpoints, webhooks, and middleware applications.
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Standardize integration frameworks and developer tools (SDKs, webhooks, API wrappers) to accelerate partner onboarding and third-party app builds.
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Oversee data synchronization, schema design, and asynchronous message processing for high-volume enterprise event traffic across distribution and marketplace channels.
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Ensure maximum uptime, error handling, rate-limiting resiliency, and end-to-end monitoring across all third-party connectors.
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Engage with strategic technology partners (e.g., GetYourGuide, HubSpot, Salesforce, insurance carriers, payment providers) to co-design seamless integration workflows.
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Establish clear integration standards and documentation for external developer partners building on the vivenu API ecosystem.
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Monitor API throughput and performance during high-concurrency event launches, proactively optimizing bottlenecks.
What you will need to succeed in this role:
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7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on web APIs, backend services, and distributed systems.
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2+ years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity (managing sprint planning, line management, and delivery).
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Deep technical expertise with Go/TypeScript, Node.js or similar modern backend languages.
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Proven track record building and consuming RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven architectures (Webhooks, Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets).
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Experience integrating major distribution channels, insurance tools, or enterprise CRMs (e.g., GetYourGuide, HubSpot, Salesforce, SAP, Stripe, Adyen).
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Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
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Deep understanding of API authentication patterns (OAuth 2.0, JWT, API Keys) and rate-limiting techniques.
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Experience in high-throughput, latency-sensitive environments (e.g., e-commerce, ticketing, fintech, or real-time transactional platforms).
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (ability to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders).
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Self-starter with a founder mindset: thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
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Experience in high-growth SaaS or B2B platforms, large-scale e-commerce, AdTech/MarTech.
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Hands-on experience building or managing a third-party developer portal/app marketplace is a plus.
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