What You’ll Do:

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of backend engineers focused on API development and platform scalability.
• Facilitate career development and ensure engineers are growing both professionally and technically.
• Create a collaborative, inclusive team culture that emphasizes ownership, accountability, and innovation.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clear communication of API platform goals and capabilities.

API Platform Strategy & Development

• Define and drive the API platform’s technical vision and architecture to support high availability, scalability, and extensibility.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of APIs, ensuring they meet performance, security, and usability standards.
• Advocate for API-first design principles across the organization and ensure consistency in API standards and best practices.
• Optimize API performance by implementing effective caching strategies and scalable architectures.

Operational Excellence

• Manage API lifecycle processes, including versioning, deprecation strategies, and integration of third-party APIs.
• Ensure API documentation is comprehensive, up-to-date, and developer-friendly.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines tailored for API development, deployment, and testing.
• Monitor and improve API reliability, latency, and error rates by using analytics and observability tools.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with Product and cross-functional teams to prioritize API features and enhancements that align with business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure APIs integrate seamlessly with backend services and external partners.
• Lead technical discussions around security, scalability, and maintainability of APIs while addressing both immediate needs and long-term goals.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring API uptime and business continuity.

What You’ll Need:

• Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of backend engineers focused on API development and platform scalability.
• Facilitate career development and ensure engineers are growing both professionally and technically.
• Create a collaborative, inclusive team culture that emphasizes ownership, accountability, and innovation.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clear communication of API platform goals and capabilities.

• Define and drive the API platform’s technical vision and architecture to support high availability, scalability, and extensibility.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of APIs, ensuring they meet performance, security, and usability standards.
• Advocate for API-first design principles across the organization and ensure consistency in API standards and best practices.
• Optimize API performance by implementing effective caching strategies and scalable architectures.

• Manage API lifecycle processes, including versioning, deprecation strategies, and integration of third-party APIs.
• Ensure API documentation is comprehensive, up-to-date, and developer-friendly.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines tailored for API development, deployment, and testing.
• Monitor and improve API reliability, latency, and error rates by using analytics and observability tools.

• Work closely with Product and cross-functional teams to prioritize API features and enhancements that align with business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure APIs integrate seamlessly with backend services and external partners.
• Lead technical discussions around security, scalability, and maintainability of APIs while addressing both immediate needs and long-term goals.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring API uptime and business continuity.

What You’ll Bring:

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of backend engineers focused on API development and platform scalability.
• Facilitate career development and ensure engineers are growing both professionally and technically.
• Create a collaborative, inclusive team culture that emphasizes ownership, accountability, and innovation.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clear communication of API platform goals and capabilities.

API Platform Strategy & Development

• Define and drive the API platform’s technical vision and architecture to support high availability, scalability, and extensibility.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of APIs, ensuring they meet performance, security, and usability standards.
• Advocate for API-first design principles across the organization and ensure consistency in API standards and best practices.

Operational Excellence

• Manage API lifecycle processes, including versioning, deprecation strategies, and integration of third-party APIs.
• Ensure API documentation is comprehensive, up-to-date, and developer-friendly.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines tailored for API development, deployment, and testing.
• Monitor and improve API reliability, latency, and error rates by using analytics and observability tools.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with Product and cross-functional teams to prioritize API features and enhancements that align with business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure APIs integrate seamlessly with backend services and external partners.
• Lead technical discussions around security, scalability, and maintainability of APIs while addressing both immediate needs and long-term goals.
• Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring API uptime and business continuity.
• Optimize API performance by implementing effective caching strategies and scalable architectures.

Compensation:

Salary to be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data.

$160,000 – $200,000

Location:

VIRTUAL, NY

Position Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Pay Type:

Salaried

Benefits:

iHeartMedia’s benefits offering is flexible and offers a variety of choices to meet the diverse needs of our changing workforce, including the following:

• Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
• Company provided and supplemental life insurance
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Paid company holidays, including a floating holiday that enable our employees to celebrate the holiday of their choosing
• A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
• A 401K plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost – services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
• ​A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!                                                                    

We are accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.

Non-Compete will be required for certain positions and as allowed by law.

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