YPO · United States
Skills: Python, AWS, Docker, GraphQL, CI/CD
Position Title: Senior Developer, APIs
Department: Technology - Engineering - Digital Experience (DEx)
Reports to (Title): Head of Engineering
Level/Sub-Level:Operations Level / Professional
☒Exempt ☐ Non-Exempt
POSITION PURPOSE
The Sr. Developer, APIs is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the API platform that supports YPO(https://himalayas.app/companies/ypo)'s member ecosystem, chapter operations, and agentic AI platform.
This role owns the technical implementation of APIs that sit at the core of the digital experience and works closely with Product, Data Architecture, IT, and Security to deliver scalable, secure, and well-governed API solutions.
The role requires strong backend engineering expertise, a high standard for API quality, and the ability to translate complex integration requirements into maintainable, production-grade systems within an event-driven, domain-aligned, serverless-first architecture.
Your API Portfolio: You will own the engineering implementation of three core API domains:
Members API
Stable, semantic endpoints exposing member profile, identity, peer discovery, and graph relationships. The foundation of member experience.
Chapters API
APIs powering chapter management, forum operations, event discovery, and role-based data access across YPO(https://himalayas.app/companies/ypo)'s global regional structure.
Agentic Ecosystem APIs
Governed API contracts for AI agents (Peer Discovery, Event Discovery) built on OpenAI + RAG and Google Gemini. Agents consume only approved APIs. Agent reasoning must always be surfaceable.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. API Design & Implementation
Design and implement production-grade RESTful and GraphQL APIs deployed via AWS API Gateway that are stable, semantic, and decoupled from vendor-specific backend schemas. Ensure all APIs conform to YPO(https://himalayas.app/companies/ypo)'s canonical ontology and global member graph. No endpoint may directly expose …truncated… erse workforce and demonstrates this through its…
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