Tek Leaders Inc
API Developer Lead
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This role is for an API Developer Lead in Cincinnati, OH, on a long-term contract. Key skills include REST API development, authentication patterns, graph query languages, and technical leadership. Experience in agile environments and strong observability practices are required.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
January 31, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Cincinnati, OH
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Security #Code Reviews #Leadership #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Scala #Documentation #API (Application Programming Interface) #Logging #Agile #REST API #DevOps #Observability
Role description
Position: API Developer Lead
Location: Cincinnati, OH – Onsite Hybrid
Long Term Contract
Role Description
• The Lead API Developer designs and delivers scalable APIs that enable secure, reliable integration between applications, services, and external consumers.
• This role provides technical leadership across design, implementation, testing, and production support, partnering with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to ensure release readiness and operational stability.
Required Skills
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining REST APIs, including API design standards, versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility practices.
• Deep experience with authentication and authorization patterns (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), secure coding practices, and data protection considerations.
• Proficiency in Cypher, Gremlin, or similar graph query languages.
• Experience with integration patterns and resiliency (idempotency, retries, rate limiting, circuit breakers), along with strong observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Proven technical leadership skills, including solution design, code reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices within an agile team.
Thanks & Regards,
Sanju
TekLeaders Inc
5151 Headquarters Dr. Suite 105
Plano TX 75024
Email: sanju@tekleaders.com
www.tekleaders.com
Position: API Developer Lead
Location: Cincinnati, OH – Onsite Hybrid
Long Term Contract
Role Description
• The Lead API Developer designs and delivers scalable APIs that enable secure, reliable integration between applications, services, and external consumers.
• This role provides technical leadership across design, implementation, testing, and production support, partnering with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to ensure release readiness and operational stability.
Required Skills
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining REST APIs, including API design standards, versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility practices.
• Deep experience with authentication and authorization patterns (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), secure coding practices, and data protection considerations.
• Proficiency in Cypher, Gremlin, or similar graph query languages.
• Experience with integration patterns and resiliency (idempotency, retries, rate limiting, circuit breakers), along with strong observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Proven technical leadership skills, including solution design, code reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices within an agile team.
Thanks & Regards,
Sanju
TekLeaders Inc
5151 Headquarters Dr. Suite 105
Plano TX 75024
Email: sanju@tekleaders.com
www.tekleaders.com
